Global study finds there really are more insects out after dark
Have you ever wondered if there are more insects out at night than during the day?
Plants & Animals
Apr 19, 2024
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News tagged with aquatic insects
Artificial streams reveal how drought shapes California's alpine ecosystems
A network of artificial streams is teaching scientists how California's mountain waterways—and the ecosystems that depend on them—may be impacted by a warmer, drier climate.
Ecology
Mar 18, 2024
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Forest and stream habitats keep energy exchanges in balance, global team finds
Forests and streams are separate but linked ecosystems, existing side by side, with energy and nutrients crossing their porous borders and flowing back and forth between them. For example, leaves fall from trees, enter streams, ...
Ecology
Mar 14, 2024
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New evidence that insect wings may have evolved from gills
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 insect wings actually evolved ...
Evolution
Jan 4, 2024
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Stolen genes allow parasitic control of behavior of host
A team led by Tappei Mishina at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) has discovered that parasites manipulate their hosts using stolen genes that they likely acquired through a phenomenon called horizontal ...
Evolution
Oct 19, 2023
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Study finds tropical ecosystems more reliant on emerging aquatic insects, potentially at greater risk
A team of researchers from Queen Mary University of London and the University of Campinas in Brazil has found that tropical forest ecosystems are more reliant on aquatic insects than temperate forest ecosystems and are therefore ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 9, 2023
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Some spiders can transfer mercury contamination to land animals, study shows
Sitting calmly in their webs, many spiders wait for prey to come to them. Arachnids along lakes and rivers eat aquatic insects, such as dragonflies. But, when these insects live in mercury-contaminated waterways, they can ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 13, 2023
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Insecticides affect aquatic insects in unexpected ways
Pesticide pollution of streams in agricultural areas has adverse effects for stream organisms. A new study, led by researchers from the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), provides evidence that ...
Ecology
Aug 22, 2023
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Why it's worth protecting a spectacular fossil site NZ almost lost to commercial mining interests
One of New Zealand's most exceptional fossil sites may soon be open to scientists again following a land purchase that saved it from commercial mining.
Paleontology & Fossils
Jul 21, 2023
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Tiny bats provide 'glimmer of hope' against a fungus that threatened entire species
Deep in a cool, damp cave in Vermont, tens of thousands of furry, chocolate brown creatures stir.
Plants & Animals
May 12, 2023
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