The recent detection of the Khapra beetle in Australia has raised alarm bells among biosecurity officials and agricultural stakeholders alike. This invasive pest, known for its devastating impact on ...

Ibrahim Mahama, born in Ghana in 1987 is to wrap the Kunsthalle Bern in response to Christo & Jeanne-Claude’s wrapping of the Kunsthalle – the first building they ever wrapped – on the occasion of its ...

Girdled branches; Insect identification; O. ocularis; O. saga; O. ulcerosa; Twig girdler Amplification profiles were compared with each other and with the molecular size marker. Bands of DNA fragments ...

Flesh-eating beetles were made famous in the movie The Mummy, where scarab beetles eat humans alive. Fortunately, the real flesh-eating beetles are known as dermestids only feast on dead people, and ...

In short: Four China fir borers, an exotic pest, were found by a Launceston resident in a bed purchased from Harvey Norman. Tasmania's Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry says the beetle ...

Threatening the global community is a wide variety of potential threats, most notably invasive pest species. Invasive pest species are non-native organisms that humans have either accidentally or ...

[1 ] Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur 63100, Pakistan. [2 ] Department of Botany, Faculty of Chemical and Biological ...

This paper reviews the structure and function of insect mechanoreceptors with respect to their cellular, subcellular, and cuticular organization. Four types are described and their function is ...