Entomology News

Scientists at the University of Illinois, USA have discovered a new species of tiny, grasshopper-like insect in the tropical rainforests of the Toledo District in southern Belize.

A There's a whole scene in " Journey 2: The Mysterious Island " where The Rock and Michael Caine sit around a campfire and the ex-wrestler takes out a ukulele and sings all three verses of "What A Wonderful World." Caine's grandson had injured his ankle and The Rock's song was meant to make to take his pain away.

The associate professor's course on monastic life and asceticism gives students at the University of Pennsylvania a firsthand experience of what it's like to be a monk.

Mr. Chris Asaro will be the speaker for the next Rockbridge Forestry and Wildlife meeting.

It seems hardly credible that New York urban planning, entomology, Nazi memorabilia, boxing, Esperanto and the lifeless English city of Milton Keynes could combine - with a myriad of other obscurities, both historical and fictitious - into a coherent 200 page novel.

The population of endangered El Segundo Blue Butterflies in a preserve near Los Angeles International Airport rose about 8 percent last year, according to the results of a field study released Friday.

The first known fossil of a rare bloodsucker called the bat fly has been found in 20-million-year-old amber.

An endangered butterfly population in a preserve near Los Angeles International Airport grew about 8 percent last year, inching closer to a comeback.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection was inspecting imported flowers Friday in Miami just before Valentine's Day as part of an annual effort to prevent insects and diseases from coming into the country.

Newswise - Top-heavy structures are more likely to maintain their balance while hovering in the air than are those that bear a lower center of gravity, researchers at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Department of Physics have found.

Authorities say this winter's unseasonably warm temperatures could cause mosquitoes and other insects to come out earlier than normal this year in parts of Georgia.

It looks like cold blooded species in the tropics could be at an extreme risk of extinction with just moderate increases in temperature according to scientific studies.

"HOW the zebra got his stripes" sounds like the title of one of Rudyard Kipling's "Just So" stories.

Researchers from Lund University in Sweden and the Eotvos University at Budapest in Hungary have discovered why the zebra got its stripes.

By ROD SANTA ANA/Special to the StarMcAllen - A total of 14 citrus trees infected with citrus greening disease have been destroyed, leaving experts hopeful that the destructive plant disease can be contained."It was important to take these trees...

Zebras are quite the communists. They graze together, groom each other and stay in packs to protect themselves from predators.

THURSDAY, Feb. 9 -- Zebras evolved from all black to striped in order to repel insects that distract them from feeding, a new study contends.

Tyrese Whitfield, 10, and Susanne Whitfield, of Armthorpe hold a tin of peaches, which had a dead wasp in it, which Susanne found after Tyrese had drank the juice.

The case of a third-grade teacher accused of feeding children his semen during bizarre "tasting games" in his classroom over a five-year period has garnered international headlines and roiled the nation's second-largest school district.

Los Angeles Unified School District administrators, counselors and new teachers gather at the Miramonte Elementary school in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Feb.