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Fruit Flies Are Spreading Across U.S. Crops. The Government ’s Outdated Approach Isn’t Helping
For two weeks in August, a crew of workers systematically confiscated every orange in Vince Bernard’s groves in Valley Center, Calif. They buried the oranges—at least $500,000 worth of fruit, Bernard says—in ditches on his neighbor’s property.
They did so by order of the U.S. government, which came accompanied by armed California Highway Patrol officers and which did not pay Bernard a penny for the crops. Bernard’s oranges were destroyed because the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) found five Mexican fruit flies on a neighbor’s property, which it considers “an i...
Source: TIME: Science - February 15, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Alana Semuels Tags: Uncategorized climate change Climate Is Everything Food & Drink healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Why Scientists Want You to Kill Spotted Lanternflies
As invasive spotted lanternflies continue moving through the United States, local agricultural agencies have launched “If you see it, kill it” campaigns urging people to kill the bugs in order to prevent any further spread across the U.S.
In response to the proliferating insect, earlier this week Senator Chuck Schumer (D., NY) called for $22 million more in funding for a U.S. Department of Agriculture program that targets invasive species; these are species that aren’t native to an area and can quickly become overpopulated, wreaking havoc on their new environment. “We need to stomp out this bug bef...
Source: TIME: Science - August 19, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Simmone Shah Tags: Uncategorized animals healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Trillions of ‘Brood X’ Cicadas Are About to Emerge Across the U.S. to Sing, Mate and Die. Here’s What to Expect
This coming May, millions of people around the United States will have front-row seats to an extraordinary entomological event: Trillions of Brood X cicadas across 15 states will emerge almost synchronously after having spent the last 17 years underground. The males will take up elevated positions, each buzzing as loud as a lawnmower to attract females. After mating, the adult cicadas will die off en masse just about as quickly as they arrived—likely sometime in late June or July—while their offspring tunnel underground, not to emerge until 2038, when the dance will begin anew.
Annual, or “dog day,”...
Source: TIME: Science - April 14, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Rebecca Katzman Tags: Uncategorized animals Environment News Source Type: news
A bug ’s life: how a volunteer army is putting Britain’s wildlife on the record
Amateur nature recorders are providing vital data on beetles, soldierflies and a host of lesser-known insectsAshleigh Whiffin ’s day job as assistant curator of entomology is to look after National Museums Scotland’s vast collection of preserved insects. But her passion for the creatures doesn’t end when she goes home; in her spare time she spends hours recording and verifying sightings of a specific group of large c arrion beetles in the familysilphidae.“Silphidae are absolutely brilliant,” Whiffin says from her Edinburgh office. “They’re decomposers, so they are really vital for recycling and also have fore...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 10, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Isabella Kaminski Tags: Insects Wildlife Environment Hobbies Life and style Animals Conservation UK news World news Zoology Biology Science Source Type: news
Deep learning and computer vision will transform entomology Biological Sciences
Most animal species on Earth are insects, and recent reports suggest that their abundance is in drastic decline. Although these reports come from a wide range of insect taxa and regions, the evidence to assess the extent of the phenomenon is sparse. Insect populations are challenging to study, and most...
Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - January 11, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Toke T. Hoye, Johanna Arȷe, Kim Bȷerge, Oskar L. P. Hansen, Alexandros Iosifidis, Florian Leese, Hȷalte M. R. Mann, Kristian Meissner, Claus Melvad, Jenni Raitoharȷu Tags: The Global Decline of Insects in the Anthropocene Special Feature Source Type: research
Insect Experts Say People Should Calm Down About the Threat of ‘Murder Hornets’
Insect experts say people should calm down about the big bug with the nickname “murder hornet” — unless you are a beekeeper or a honeybee.
The Asian giant hornets found in Washington state that grabbed headlines this week aren’t big killers of humans, although it does happen on rare occasions. But the world’s largest hornets do decapitate entire hives of honeybees, and that crucial food pollinator is already in big trouble.
Numerous bug experts told The Associated Press that what they call hornet “hype” reminds them of the 1970s public scare when Africanized honeybees, nicknamed &l...
Source: TIME: Science - May 7, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Seth Borenstein / AP Tags: Uncategorized Environment News Desk wire Source Type: news
On a subject no one wants to read about (about which no one wants to read?) Editorials
Long before I developed an interest in entomology, I had an interest in etymology—the study of word origins and evolution. An interest in word coinage is certainly compatible with a career in science. As a matter of course, scientists develop new concepts, discover new materials, invent new instruments, or describe...
Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - January 6, 2020 Category: Science Authors: May R. Berenbaum Tags: Editorials Source Type: research
Why You Really Shouldn ’t Kill the Spiders in Your Home, According to an Entomologist
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
Source: TIME: Science - September 16, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Matt Bertone, North Carolina State University / The Conversation Tags: Uncategorized bugs Insects spiders syndication Source Type: news
Plant Bugs Predators (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae) with References to Arthropods and Fungi in Brazil.
This study aims to increase the knowledge of the relationships among plant bugs, prey and fungi and emphasize those species with potential for biological control strategies and pest integrated management.
PMID: 31411260 [PubMed - in process]
Source: An Acad Bras Cienc - August 11, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Nogueira BCF, Ferreira PSF, Coelho LA, Martins DS, Barcellos BD Tags: An Acad Bras Cienc Source Type: research
New Editor-in-Chief of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Named
The National Academy of Sciences announced the appointment of May R. Berenbaum, professor and Swanlund Chair of Entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as editor-in-chief of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the official journal of the Academy. Berenbaum, who was elected to the NAS in 1994 and has served on the PNAS editorial board since 1998, will begin the editorship on Jan. 1, 2019. Read More
Source: News from the National Academies - October 26, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: news
Book clinic: which books best capture our relationship with animals?
Carl Safina ’s educated anthropomorphism and Alex Preston’s vivid bird portraits are the wild stuff to illuminate our place in the natural worldWhich books best depict our relationship with other species without being oversentimental or too philosophical?Carlos Lugo-Ortiz, 52, professor of biology and entomology, Ponce, Puerto RicoCharles Foster, author of the Baillie Gifford-longlistedBeing a Beast (Profile, £8.99), writes:The stipulation “over-sentimental” indicates, I assume, impatience with anthropomorphism. I’m impatient with that impatience. Anthropomorphism, as the American biologist Carl Safina puts it, ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 4, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Charles Foster Tags: Science and nature books Zoology Biology Culture Source Type: news
How the humble fly can help to solve our most gruesome crimes
Flies are often the first visitors to a murder scene. Studying their grisly dining habits can reveal vital clues to help catch the killerFlies are regarded by most people as a nuisance at best, a harbinger of death at worst. They elicit little more than feelings of disgust and many people are happy to kill them without a second thought. But there is another side to the story. The fly is one of nature ’s great marvels and, perhaps, the criminologist’s best friend.In addition to familiar forensic clues such as fingerprints, tell-tale hairs and bloodstains, more and more criminal investigators are relying on the services ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 14, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Erica McAlister Tags: Forensic science Zoology Biology Environment Animals Insects Wildlife World news Source Type: news
Trump's Hiring Freeze Could Imperil Breakthrough Discovery On Bees
Julia Fine was all set for the next chapter. She’d packed her bags and moved out of her apartment, and was days away from making the drive from Pennsylvania to Utah, where she planned to start work as a postdoctoral scholar with the Agricultural Research Service, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s research agency.
“I had made all the plans,” said Fine, a bee researcher who recently completed her doctorate in entomology at Pennsylvania State University. “I was supposed to start as soon as possible.”
But on Jan. 23, just three days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration,...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - February 6, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: news
Moth Species With Trump-Like Hair Named After Donald Trump
A newly discovered species of moth received a fitting moniker, given the helmet-like cluster of yellow-white scales atop its head.
Meet Neopalpa donaldtrumpi, named after President-elect Donald Trump “because of the resemblance of the scales on the frons (head) of the moth to Mr. Trump’s hairstyle.”
And while the resemblance to Trump is uncanny, the visual similarity was not the main motivation behind the naming, Dr. Vazrick Nazari, the evolutionary biologist who discovered the species, told The Huffington Post in an email.
“With the new administration taking office very soon, and the uncertain...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - January 18, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: news
In Depth Like birds, insects may travel in sync with the seasons
An analysis of a decade's worth of data from radars specifically designed to track airborne insects has revealed that trillions cross parts of the southern United Kingdom each year, traveling hundreds of kilometers a day. Although some specific insect migrations have been extensively studied, the new work, by taking a more systematic and quantifiable approach, reveals just how common they are. These mobile invertebrates, whose bodies are packed full of nitrogen and phosphorus, could move significant amounts of key nutrients across the globe and thereby have a big impact on ecosystem function. The work used upward-facing ra...
Source: ScienceNOW - December 22, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Elizabeth Pennisi Tags: Entomology Source Type: news
