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- Curious About Edible Insects? There’s a Free Online Course for That https://entomologytoday.org/2023/05/09/edible-insects-massive-open-online-course/ 3 comments
- When a mosquito can’t stop drinking blood, the result isn’t pretty https://entomologytoday.org/2020/03/19/when-a-mosquito-cant-stop-drinking-blood-the-result-isnt-pretty/ 87 comments
- How the Varroa Mite’s True Diet Was Discovered https://entomologytoday.org/2019/02/21/inside-look-how-varroa-mite-diet-discovered/ 42 comments
- Fossilized Insect Discovered Not in Amber, but in Opal https://entomologytoday.org/2019/01/18/fossilized-insect-discovered-amber-opal/ 9 comments
- Cattle Grazing Helps Pollinators in Sagebrush Rangelands https://entomologytoday.org/2024/08/21/cattle-grazing-helps-bees-pollinators-sagebrush-rangelands/ 5 comments science
- Commercial kiwi fruits are inadequately pollinated by insects, need artificial pollination https://entomologytoday.org/2023/05/10/kiwifruit-pollination-bees-artificial/ 9 comments science
- Female Rhamphomyia longicauda flies, known as long-tailed dance flies, inflate their abdomens during courtship to appear more fecund than they may actually be. Their leg scales also serve as a sexual ornament to attract males. https://entomologytoday.org/2020/02/14/nuptial-gifts-romantic-gestures-bug-insect-arthropod-world-valentines-day/rhamphomyia-longicauda-uninflated-female/ 12 comments science
- Meet the Mosquito With a Big Appetite—for Other Mosquitoes https://entomologytoday.org/2019/03/19/toxorhynchites-rutilus-mosquito-appetite-other-mosquitoes/ 7 comments science
- Bumble Bee Queens Slower to Start Colonies After Minimal Neonicotinoid Insecticide Exposure https://entomologytoday.org/2017/12/19/bumble-bee-queens-slower-to-start-colonies-after-minimal-neonic-exposure/ 3 comments science
- New research proves beetles have been pollinating flowers for at least 20 million years. Two pieces of fossilized amber have revealed ancient beetles with orchid pollen on their tentacle-like mouth pieces. https://entomologytoday.org/2016/08/22/new-fossil-evidence-shows-beetles-pollinated-orchids-millions-of-years-ago/ 36 comments science
- Zika virus genome published. Zika virus is believed to be responsible for an epidemic of microcephaly (shrunken head) in Brazil. The first Zika virus genome from the Americas has now been published. http://entomologytoday.org/2016/01/12/zika-virus-genome-sequence-published-by-the-institut-pasteur/ 4 comments science
- Mosquitoes lay more eggs near flowers http://entomologytoday.org/2016/01/05/mosquitoes-lay-eggs-water-near-nectar/ 8 comments science
- Rio De Janiero has more cockroaches than anywhere in the americas. Second most diverse area is Guiana Shield (northern S.America) with 234 species http://entomologytoday.org/2015/01/23/new-checklist-guiana-shield-cockroach-diversity/ 8 comments science