It's unusual for a college student to discover even one new species. Rachel Smith discovered eighteen. All of them were beetles. That means that the stupendous, ever-growing list of beetle species ...
In this episode of Tiny Show and Tell Us, a listener on “team wasp” writes in with some interesting info on USDA wasps for pesticide-free pest control and we learn about some wasp versus beetle drama.
Rhode Island scientists released a wasp species meant to attack an invasive beetle species known as the emerald ash borer. According to Burrillville Land Trust President Paul Roselli,the beetle ...
KA’U (HawaiiNewsNow) - Tiny wasps the size of dust particles could be the answer to saving Hawaii Coffee farms. And now UH researchers plan to set a swarm free on Hawaii Island. Tens of thousands of ...
A defenseless insect can gain protection from predators if it evolves to resemble a well-defended species. This evolved similarity is called mimicry, and most familiar are examples of edible ...
Up close, the emerald ash borer is a strikingly beautiful insect. It's also a dangerous pest. The metallic green beetles entered the United States from northeast Asia in the 1990s, likely hitching a ...
Country clubs and assassin wasps: Fighting the Japanese beetle’s spread out of the Denver metro area
The most action-packed summer blockbuster in Colorado isn’t playing out on the silver screen, but around a rosebud’s roots: predatory wasp versus invasive Japanese beetle. The unwelcome beetle — a six ...
Most people looking for a solution to a garden problem, like Japanese beetles, look only for an obvious and quick solution, such as spraying with insecticides or pheromone-baited beetle traps. A ...
MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Researchers at the University of Tennessee are investigating whether parasitic wasps can be used to kill the emerald ash borer, a beetle that is threatening millions of trees ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- In an effort to combat a beetle endangering a species of tree found throughout New York City, the city Parks Department is releasing parasitoid (or stingless) wasps in ...
On the last day of July, there was a different kind of drama at a baseball field in Rutland Town. A mother wasp flew low over the infield, weighed down with a beetle that she planned to feed to her ...
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