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Last week, we discussed tomato diseases. This week, we will cover pests just as destructive: insects. Damage to plants via ...
As spring moves towards summer and temperatures start to rise, native insects begin to take flight. Perhaps none are as ...
They attacked just before dawn, with buggy little beaks — piercing night after night for weeks that felt like years. “Oh God, ...
A pest control company has released a ranking of the 50 most bedbug-infested cities in the United States, and Columbus ranked ...
In a new strategy to combat citrus greening disease, scientists have engineered citrus trees to act as both bait and executioner for the insects that ...
If you’ve noticed clusters of strange, black, hopping bugs speckled with white dots on trees, fences, or garden tools—bad ...
Tracing the origin of an ultra-hot exoplanet: The chemical composition of WASP-121b suggests that it formed in a cool zone of its natal disc, comparable to the region of gas and ice giants in our ...
New fossil shows that precise wasp mimicry in hoverflies evolved far earlier than previously thought—and wasn't shaped by modern birds. Děčín, Czech Republic—A newly discovered fossil from ...
A parasitic wasp forces its host to weave a special web for its own ends. On the evening that it will kill its orb-weaving spider host, the larva of the ichneumonid wasp Hymenoepimecis sp. induces ...
Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have provided new clues about how the exoplanet WASP-121b has formed and where it might have originated in the disk of gas and dust around ...
To the point. Tracing the origin of an ultra-hot exoplanet: The chemical composition of WASP-121b suggests that it formed in a cool zone of its natal disc, comparable to the region of gas and ice ...