Tag: Insects
Bloodthirsty tsetse flies nurse their young, one live birth at a...
Geoff Attardo, University of California, Davis
Tsetse flies are bloodthirsty. Natives of sub-Saharan Africa, tsetse flies can transmit the microbe Trypanosoma when they take a...
How to manage plant pests and diseases in your victory garden
Matt Kasson, West Virginia University; Brian Lovett, West Virginia University, and Carolee Bull, Pennsylvania State University
Home gardening is having a boom year across the...
What are Asian giant hornets, and are they really dangerous? 5...
Akito Y Kawahara, University of Florida
Editor’s note: According to recent press reports, two Asian giant hornets – a species not known to occur in...
Do wasps have a queen like bees do?
Caralyn Zehnder, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert...
How fireflies glow – and what signals they’re sending
Clyde Sorenson, North Carolina State University
You might not really be sure you saw what you think you saw when the first one shows up....
Is an ‘insect apocalypse’ happening? How would we know?
Brian Lovett, University of Maryland
Insects scuttle, chew and fly through the world around us. Humans rely on them to pollinate plants, prey on insects...
Venomous yellow scorpions are moving into Brazil’s big cities – and...
Hamilton Coimbra Carvalho, Universidade de Sao Paulo
I live in São Paulo, the biggest city in Brazil, home to some 12 million people – 20...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
