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Hawkmoth and Sacred Datura Flower

How moths key into the scent of a flower

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Moths need just the essence of a flower's scent to identify it, according to new research from The University of Arizona in Tucson.





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Invasive Nettle Moth Triggers Hawaii Research

Invasive Nettle Moth Triggers Hawaii Research

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Like children everywhere, kids in Hawaii love to run barefoot through tall grass. But an invasive pest called the nettle moth caterpillar can take the fun out of this simple childhood pleasure, ...


It's in his smell

It's in his smell

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A female moth selects a mate based on the scent of his pheromones. An analysis of the pheromones used by the European Corn Borer (ECB, Ostrinia nubilalis), featured in the open access journal BMC Biology, ...


Plan to eradicate moth in California causing controversy

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An effort to eradicate the light brown apple moth by introducing sterile males into the population is doomed to failure and will waste millions of taxpayer dollars.


An adult silkworm moth

A new twist in the sex life of silk worms

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A quirk in the sex life of the silkworm (Bombyx mori) has been revealed by a team of CSIRO Food Futures Flagship scientists led by Dr Alisha Anderson.


Live silkmoth is used for an experiment to create insect-machine hybrids, in Tokyo

Japanese scientists aim to create robot-insects

Technology / Hi Tech

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Police release a swarm of robot-moths to sniff out a distant drug stash. Rescue robot-bees dodge through earthquake rubble to find survivors.


Angraecum sesquipedale ('Comet Orchid')

The evolution of orchids

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Charles Darwin and many other scientists have long been puzzled by the evolution of orchids, the largest and most diverse family of flowering plants on Earth. Now genetic sequencing is giving ...


Accessory protein determines whether pheromones are detected

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 17, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Pheromones are like the molecules you taste as you chomp on a greasy french fry: big and fatty. In research to be published in the October 17 advance online issue of Nature, Rockefeller University researchers reveal an una ...


A first: Researchers apply efficient coding principle to sense of smell

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created Apr 25, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that the efficient coding principle regarding neurobiological processes applies to sense of smell. The team, comprised of researchers from the Czech Academy of Sciences and ...


A new species of predatory bagworm from Panama's tropical forest

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created Jul 29, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

University of Panama and Smithsonian researchers report the discovery of a new Bagworm Moth species, in the Annals of the Entomology Society of America. Unlike nearly all other Bagworms, Perisceptis carnivora have predatory larva ...


Female choice benefits mothers more than offspring

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

The great diversity of male sexual traits, ranging from peacock's elaborate train to formidable genitalia of male seed beetles, is the result of female choice. But why do females choose among males? In a new study published ...



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