Adults mate and lay eggs. It is important to understand life stages because pest controls usually target the damaging or most vulnerable stage of insect development. Timing is also a factor. We know ...

The rate of development of poikilothermic animals, such as insects, fish, and reptiles, is determined by environmental ...

A handful of new studies moves the needle toward a consensus on the long-disputed question of whether insect wings evolved from legs or from the body wall, but the devil is in the details. Jef Akst ...

Pupils at Holtsmere End Junior School in Hemel Hempstead are eagerly awaiting a visit from local hedgehogs after homes for ...

In fact, two of the UN’s eight Millennium Development Goals—eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, and reducing child mortality rates—can be directly addressed by expanding consumption of edible ...

While many people from outside Guangdong province shun insects as food, bug dishes are common on dinner tables in the ...

The researchers hope that further development will allow the small robotic insects to operate together in swarms. These swarms could then be used to coordinate pollination of large areas within ...

The Insect Pest Control Subprogramme carries out Research and Development activities (R&D) at the Insect Pest Control Laboratory located at the FAO/IAEA Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratories in ...

Through its laboratories at Seibersdorf, Austria, it carries out applied research and method development and improvement, helping Member States adapt and integrate the Sterile Insect Technique with ...

The second, called diapause, is genetically programmed to kick in at a specific stage in biological development, regardless of what the weather’s doing. Quiescence and obligate diapause have different ...

The rate of development of poikilothermic animals, such as insects, fish, and reptiles, is determined by environmental temperature. A research team has recently demonstrated how temperature can affect ...