The silverleaf whitefly is a major crop pest in the tropics and subtropics. After studying its genome, an INRAE researcher and a CNRS researcher identified 49 plant genes transferred to the insect's ...

Insect life-cycle polymorphism : introduction / S. Masaki and W. Wipking -- Diversity and integration of life-cycle controls in insects / H.V. Danks -- Seasonal plasticity and life-cycle adaptations ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The word “adaptation” is used in many ways by climate scientists, but it has a very specific meaning to biologists: It refers to ...

(THE CONVERSATION) — Climate change is threatening the survival of plants and animals around the globe as temperatures rise and habitats change. The word “adaptation” is used in many ways by climate ...

How did insect wings originate? This is a question that represents an unsolved mystery of insect evolution. Despite many years of research, it is still not entirely clear from which body structure ...

Environmental adaptation evolution is the basic ability of insects to survive in diverse environments. Insecticide resistance in agricultural pests is a typical scientific issue of insect adaptation, ...

Researchers have discovered that plants benefit from a greater variety of interactions with pollinators and herbivores. Plants that are pollinated by insects and have to defend themselves against ...

Scientists of the Max Planck Research Group Insect Symbiosis and the Experimental Ecology and Evolution Group at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, found that acquiring a ...

On Monday, November 16, Tapping Our Watershed presents “Amazing Aquatic Insects: Adaptations for Living in Water” with Stefanie Kroll, Project Science Director at the Academy of Natural Sciences of ...

For over a century, scientists have studied myrmecochory, a phenomenon where ants transport seeds to their nests. In this intricate plant-insect interaction, seeds with specialized structures called ...