Sticky traps in northwest Illinois are showing Ken Ferrie a picture he had hoped he wouldn’t have to see: populations of northern corn rootworm moving into the state. “We saw some of the northern ...

One day, I found myself in a dream. I still can’t believe I spent several days surrounded by hundreds of thousands of these beautiful creatures in Mexico. This incredible butterfly is called the ...

Studying the African turquoise killifish, which enters into a suspended state called "diapause" during dry and unfavorable growing seasons, researchers uncovered mechanisms that allow the arrested ...

Facultative diapause is a strategy that allows insects to initiate an additional generation when conditions are favorable, or to enter diapause when they are not. The occurrence of additional ...

Flesh flies (Sarcophagidae) collected in Costa Rica and Panama lack the pupal diapause that is characteristic of flesh flies from the temperate zone and tropical Africa. The absence of a diapause ...

Diapause is a seasonal adaptation strategy of insects and animals where biological functions are put on hold, such as insect eggs that remain dormant until conditions are more favorable to hatch. This ...

To work out which nutrients were important to induce diapause, the researchers grew early-stage mouse embryos in dishes that contained different nutrients. They found that embryos grown in dishes ...

The African turquoise killifish lives in ephemeral ponds in Zimbabwe and Mozambique. To survive the annual dry season, the fish's embryos enter a state of extreme suspended animation or 'diapause' for ...

To be honest, I wasn’t sure I was. But Andrew Forbes, an Ottawa-born writer who now lives in Peterborough, Ont., had, during the pandemic, become one of my favourite authors. His two collections of ...

Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) have long been known for their impressive migration abilities, with North American species traveling around 3,000 miles from the United States and Canada into ...