News tagged with male moth
How moths key into the scent of a flower
Moths need just the essence of a flower's scent to identify it, according to new research from The University of Arizona in Tucson.
Mar 05, 2009 |
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Transgene insects: Scientists call for more open data
While genetically modified plants have already been introduced into the wild on a large scale in some parts of the world, the release of genetically modified animals is still at a relatively early stage. A ...
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Using radiation to sterilize insect pests may protect California fruits and vegetables
A new study published in the Journal of Economic Entomology shows that radiation can be used to effectively sterilize the light brown apple moth (LBAM), an insect pest found in Australia, New Zealand, California, Hawaii, Sweden ...
Nov 30, 2011 |
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Neuroscientists unlock shared brain codes
A team of neuroscientists at Dartmouth College has shown that different individuals' brains use the same, common neural code to recognize complex visual images.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 20, 2011 |
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Viral gene drives sick gypsy moth caterpillars to climb high and die
For a century, scientists have watched European gypsy moth caterpillars infected with a virus use their last strength to do something that a healthy gypsy moth caterpillar would never do in daylight hours ...
Sep 08, 2011 |
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Dual-sex butterfly hatches at Natural History Museum
A rare half-male and half-female butterfly has emerged at the Natural History Museum's Sensational Butterflies exhibition.
Jul 13, 2011 |
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Reproductive behavior of the silkmoth is determined by a single pheromone receptor protein
Pheromone preference, and the initiation of a complex programmed sexual behavior, is determined by the specificity of a single sex pheromone receptor protein expressed in a population of olfactory receptor neurons in the ...
Jun 30, 2011 |
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Molecular messages from the antennae
(PhysOrg.com) -- Insects use their antennae for smelling and thus for locating resources in their environment. In an online first article published today, Max Planck researchers present the first complete ...
Apr 15, 2011 |
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Silk moth's antenna inspires new nanotech tool with applications in Alzheimer's research
By mimicking the structure of the silk moth's antenna, University of Michigan researchers led the development of a better nanopore---a tiny tunnel-shaped tool that could advance understanding of a class of ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 28, 2011 |
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Strange ways of wooing
Birds do it, fish do it, even sexually ambiguous flatworms do it: all these creatures use complex strategies to win at the mating game.
Feb 14, 2011 |
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Evidence of criticality in North American gypsy moth invasion found
The European gypsy moth, introduced to North America in 1869 near Boston, Mass., has steadily spread from there, devastating forests from eastern Canada to Wisconsin to North Carolina and thwarting all attempts at control. ...
Jan 10, 2011 |
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