The Amazon rainforest is often associated with jaguars, parrots, and towering trees. Yet the majority of animal life in this forest consists of insects. These small creatures pollinate plants, ...

Stick insects that reproduce asexually cannot adapt as quickly in the course of evolution as sexually reproducing species, leading to a decrease in biological diversity, according to new research. An ...

Scientists have uncovered a set of neurons in fruit flies that shut down in cold temperatures and slow reproduction, a system conserved in many insects, including mosquitoes, which could provide a ...

The predatory mirid bug, Nesidiocoris tenuis, which preys on agricultural pests, is used as a biological control agent. This discovery has significant implications for biological control which ...

SMBE Journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution) Further analysis of PifA and PifB revealed that they exhibit many of the characteristics of eukaryotic host-associated ...

Female Trichogramma pretiosum wasp, which are often infected with parthenogenesis-inducing Wolbachia, walking on top of Ephestia eggs and parasitizing them. Credit: Laura C. Fricke, University of ...

Cytogenetic mechanisms in insect reproduction / M.J.D. White -- Studies on early stages of insect oogenesis / R.C. King -- Endocrine relationships in insect reproduction / K.C. Highnam -- Feeding and ...