Using information on alpine plant species, researchers investigated how the chemistry of flowers' scent affects not only the ...

Second, when I replaced the plants, I chose a wide variety of native species. Later, I found out that having a variety of ...

A parasitic worm uses static electricity to launch itself onto flying insects, a mechanism uncovered by physicists and ...

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The country, previously joined only by Antarctica in its mosquito-free status, has been a focus of climate research for years ...

With 11,000 species of insects known in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, how do you write a guide to them? Jim and Leslie ...

Boxwood leafminer is my main suspect, and I have recently seen boxwoods looking just like you describe, which had high ...

Thomas Say was perhaps the greatest entomological tour de force America has known. Born in Philadelphia in 1787, Say ...

Bats achieved true flight through unique evolutionary changes. A new study reveals how bats repurposed existing genes and ...

An international team of scientists led by the Doñana Biological Station (EBD-CSIC) has described a new species of fossilized ...