Latest Entomology Stories
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Pacific Shore Holdings, Inc. (PSHR) -- today announced the release of a short film on YouTube showing proof positive that its Nature-Cide® Bed Bug formulation kills Bed Bugs within seconds. As Bed Bugs continue their transcontinental journey around the world, now there is a way to rid yourself of Bed Bugs 100% naturally and affordably. Story after story continues to circle the media, such as the one on February 24, 2011, about a woman who was...
SUNRISE, Fla., Feb. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- NaturaNectar LLC announced today that its first and flagship product EaseFemin(TM) Menopausal Support is now available to tens of thousands of health food stores in the United States through Select Nutrition Distributors' east and west coast warehouses. "It's another clear demonstration of our company's commitment to our Partners, the retail stores that now can easily order our products through Select Nutrition, an industry leader in natural...
Scientists discover an 'atmospheric imprint' in insects, revealing where they are most likely to survive should climate change alter their ecosystemScientists have discovered that insects contain atomic clues as to the habitats in which they are most able to survive. The research has important implications for predicting the effects of climate change on the insects, which make up three-quarters of the animal kingdom.Applying a method previously only used to examine the possible effects of...
Research by the University of Exeter has revealed that ants have a big impact on their local environment as a result of their activity as 'ecosystem engineers' and predators.The study, published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, found that ants have two distinct effects on their local environment.Firstly, through moving of soil by nest building activity and by collecting food they affect the level of nutrients in the soil. This can indirectly impact the local populations of many animal...
SUNRISE, Fla., Jan. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- NaturaNectar LLC is pleased to announce that its exclusive extracts from Brazilian Bee Propolis will be featured in an upcoming segment of "The Art of Living with Marilu Henner". The company's EaseFemin(TM) Menopausal Support has been recognized as an effective natural alternative to managing menopausal symptoms and could provide relief for the 40 million plus women currently going through menopause in the US. (Logo:...
The humble ginger root could be the key to conserving the UK's largest and most spectacular terrestrial beetle "“ the stag beetle. Ecologists from Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of York have developed a series of new methods to monitor stag beetle numbers "“ including ginger lures to trap adult beetles and tiny microphones to detect sounds made by the larvae in their underground nests. Conservation efforts have been hampered until now because ecologists lacked a...
Entomologists of University Jena are the first to reconstruct a fossil insect completely in 3DIts stay on this planet was actually meant to be a very short one. Male twisted-wing parasites (Strepsiptera) usually have a life span of only few hours. However, accidentally a specimen of Mengea tertiara, about the size of an aphid, became preserved for "˜eternity': during its wedding flight about 42 million years ago it was caught in a drop of tree resin and subsequently almost perfectly...
SUNRISE, Fla., Jan. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- NaturaNectar LLC, announced today that its sister company PhenolicFactory secured a long-term Partnership with Scandinavian based PRC - Propolis Research Centre A/S to begin extracting Bee Propolis in the USA through a revolutionary yet time proofed technology capable of generating the purest and richest propolis extracts available today through a combination of a well kept extraction formula and a series of well designed patents. The process is...
Flying insects' altitude control mechanisms are the focus of research being conducted in a Caltech laboratory under an Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant that may lead to technology that controls altitude in a variety of aircraft for the Air Force."This work investigates sensory-motor feedback mechanisms in the insect brain that could inspire new approaches to flight stabilization and navigation in future insect-sized vehicles for the military," said Dr. Willard Larkin,...
Nonindigenous insects and pathogens, including many that cause serious damage, have established in forests in the United States with regularity over 15 decadesNonindigenous insects and pathogens continue to become established in US forests with regularity despite regulations intended to prevent this, according to a study published in the December 2010 issue of BioScience. The study, by a team led by Juliann E. Aukema of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in Santa...
Latest Entomology Reference Libraries
The Argema mittrei, more commonly known as the Comet or Moon Moth, is an endangered species. It is a native of Madagascar and that is the only place where one can observe them in the wild. This large silk moth can be bred in captivity and is one of the world's largest moths. Males have an average wing span of nearly 8 inches and a tail span of almost 6 inches. The lifespan of an adult moth is only 4-5 days and they are capable of reproduction from day 1. Their cocoons are uniquely...
A caterpillar is the larval form of a lepidopteran (a member of the insect order comprising butterflies and moths). Caterpillars are characterized by their long segmented bodies and many sets of "legs". They eat voracious leaf eaters and grow rapidly, During growth the caterpillar will shed its skin four to five times before pupating into its adult form. Caterpillars have six true legs (being hexapods) on the thorax, up to four pairs of prolegs on the middle segments of the abdomen, and...
Caelifera, a herbivorous insect, is a suborder of the order Orthoptera. Commonly called grasshoppers in English, the sub-order includes short-horned grasshoppers, grasshoppers and locusts. Characteristics The Caelifera have antennae that are shorter than the body, and short ovipositors. Those species that make easily heard noises usually do so by rubbing the hind femurs against the forewings or abdomen, or by snapping the wings in flight. Tympana, if present, are on the sides of the...
The superfamily Papilionoidea contains all the butterflies except for the skippers, which are classified in superfamily Hesperioidea. Some authors treat this grouping as a series (Papilioniformes) within a single superfamily that also includes the skippers. However, all are agreed that, although all the butterflies constitute a single monophyletic clade, a distinction needs to be made between the skippers and the rest of the butterflies. Compared with the skippers, in the families that are...
Katydid is the common name of insects belonging to the grasshopper family Tettigoniidae, which contains over 6,800 species. Katydid are also known as "long horned grasshoppers" and "bush crickets." The term "katydid" is used mainly in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. The name "katydid" comes from the sound produced by species of the N. American genus Pterophylla (literally "winged leaf"). The males of katydids have sound-producing (stridulating) organs located on their front wings which in...
