Grasshoppers may be a nuisance to your garden, but their voracious appetites and large numbers can cause more significant problems for farmers and ranchers by consuming cash crops as well as grasses ...

Insects outnumber humans, and indeed almost all animals, in the number of organisms belonging to this class. Scientists say they make up over 950,000 insect species, with about 25,000 being bees, ...

The field of insect molecular genetics and physiology explores the complex genetic and biochemical networks that govern insect development, adaptation and homeostasis. With Drosophila melanogaster as ...

New research finds that insect colonies follow some of the same biological "rules" as individuals, a finding that suggests insect societies operate like a single "superorganism" in terms of their ...

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 ...

SERCMAI copy 39088009135252 has bookplate: Smithsonian Libraries Adopt-a-Book program. Adopted by Fay & Michael Bidlack in memory of Jean Sylvia Mon-Bidlack on October 14, 2019. Foreword / Richard ...

Insect-killing bacteria typically release toxins to slay their hosts. The bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens, for example, pumps insect larvae full of the lethal 'Makes caterpillars floppy 1' (Mcf1) ...

INSECTS do not breathe in quite the way we thought. The revelation has caused a sharp intake of breath among zoologists, because after centuries of study it means we may have to rethink our ideas ...

Biological control applications based on the use of sterile insects and natural enemies are sustainable and environment-friendly control methods that are increasingly being used against pest insects.