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Rounding out the bottom five are killer bees, starlings, mountain pine beetles, brown tree snakes and Asian mongooses.

Ladybugs, an insect enemy of aphids, didnt inspire that kind of synchronous response either. Further studies with an artificial breath apparatus allowed the researchers to test what it was about the breath that tipped the aphids off.

crickets and June beetles Colombia oefat-bottomed ants are a popular snack, fried and salted Papua new guinea Sago grubs in banana leaves are a local delicacy Ghana Winged termites are collected and fried, roasted,

and when one lone ladybug sat through Mary poppins, evolution took another tiny step forward...In the future, the square fruit in the grocery store will be found next to the square vegetables and the square poultry sections...

The consortium released the 464 megabyte draft genome of the pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum) in the current issue of PLOS Biology. oebecause this is a different kind of insect not a fruit fly, not a beetle,

Spanish fly Empanadas The longstanding legend that oespanish Fly can drive the ladies wild is a dangerous myth.

The Spanish fly is actually a green blister beetle found in southern parts of Europe. For centuries, a preparation made from the insects dried and crushed bodies (a substance known as cantharides) was used medically as an irritant and diuretic.

Today, Spanish fly is considered actually a poison, as an overload of cantharides can cause kidney malfunction, gastrointestinal hemorrhages or even death.

although youd never know that based on the number of Spanish fly-related porn sites on the Web. via Mental Flos t

#Just six years later, following the launch of the new Beetle, the company began its comeback.

Aphids and flea beetles are the two most common insect pests when growing peppers. While both can be controlled with insecticidal soap,

and garlic/hot pepper spray works very well on a flea beetle infestation. 7. Beets Beets are a great two-fer#crop#you can harvest the beet roots, of course,

It is nontoxic to bees, ladybugs and other beneficial insects and therefore unique to agriculture and conventional pesticides.

and large amounts of beetle-killed trees have created#oeperfect storm#conditions for multiple wildfires to rage across the State.

Globally, beetles and caterpillars are consumed as much as all other edible insects taken together. But bees (as my brother can attest to),

Weevil infestations caused postharvest losses as high as 50 percent until Purdue University researchers discovered that storing the cowpeas in airtight containers could preserve the crop for up to a year.

Some beetles for example have been recorded emerging from furniture imported from Asia decades before she said. Follow Elizabeth Howell@howellspace. Follow Livescience@livescience Facebookâ & Google+.

African palm weevil A delicacy among many African tribes the palm weevil (Rhychophorus phoenicis) is collected off the trunks of palm trees.

About 4 inches (10 centimeters) long and two inches (5 cm) wide the weevils are fried easily pan

A 2011 report from the Journal of Insect Science found that the African palm weevil is an excellent source of several nutrients such as potassium zinc iron and phosphorous as well as several amino acids and healthy

Mealworms The larvae of the mealworm beetle (Tenebrio molitor) is one of the only insects consumed in the Western world:

The nutritional value of mealworms is hard to beat: They're rich in copper sodium potassium iron zinc and selenium.

Mealworms are also comparable to beef in terms of protein content but have a greater number of healthy polyunsaturated fats.

#72,000 Ladybugs Released in Mall of America Ladybug ladybug fly away home the nursery rhyme advises.

And some 72000 ladybugs have found a home within the Mall of America where mall managers have released the insects inside the fully enclosed shopping and entertainment complex.

Ladybugs members of the coccinellid family of beetles which are valued by gardeners for their habit of eating pests like aphids.

Ladybugs are what I like to call sort of a biological defense system Lydell Newby the Mall of America's senior manager of environmental services told local news station KARE 11.

The mall has released ladybugs in the past as an alternative to commercial pesticides the International Business times reports. Though some shoppers have complained that the ladybugs might fly onto food a mall spokesperson noted that the insects tend to spend their lives on plants not human food.

Ladybugs (sometimes called ladybirds) make ideal pest control agents inside an enclosed area like a mall or a greenhouse Treehugger notes.

In an outdoor garden however they're likely to disperse. Ladybug populations throughout North america have been changing rapidly for reasons that may include climate change and land-use patterns.

The Lost Ladybug Project is an effort (partly funded by the National Science Foundation) to track the insects'population across the continent.

The Mall of America has other green initiatives: It converts its restaurants'fryer fat into biodiesel fuel for the mall's security vehicles according to the site's MOABLOG.

Insects Come to the Table Mealworms wax worms and crickets may not be obvious choices for Turkey Day

The Thanksgiving snacks will include a mealworm-filled cornbread stuffing wax worm cranberry sauce and a dessert of cricket pumpkin pie said Jayme Necaise director of animal

The insectarium routinely serves bugs to its patrons in dishes such as mealworm-filled six-legged salsa and chocolate chirp cookies

Â The mealworms tend to have an earthy taste similar to pumpernickel or other earthy breads.

After analyzing the structure of these grains the researchers suggested that the associated plants werepollinated by insects most likely beetles as bees did not evolve until about 100 million years later.

Climate change promotes fire-friendly infestations of bark beetles via a double whammy: Milder winters enable populations of bark beetles to survive the winter

and thereby increase their numbers and amplify their killing power. By contrast populations of these pests used to be thinned

At the same time climate change increases the vulnerability of forests to bark beetle attacks. It does so by triggering droughts that subject trees to water stress

which reduces their resistance to bark beetle infestations much the way that starvation reduces the resistance of people to infections.

and one of the tiniest dung beetles ever found are among the new species discovered during a survey of

The antlered red beetle is likely the second-smallest dung beetle species in South america the researchers reported.

Dung beetles play critical ecological roles that help support healthy ecosystems Trond Larsen the director of the Rapid Assessment Program said in a statement.

As these pines are high-altitude trees growing best above 8000 feet (about 2400 meters) some have proposed that the warming climate might facilitate outbreaks of native mountain pine beetles

The winter temperatures aren't cold enough to break the cycle for the beetles. One hypothesis is that we're going to see more frequent outbreaks

but police and searchers had identified already the Smith property as among the most likely places where Terry Smith Jr. might be found.

#Do Bark beetles Affect Water Quality? This Research in Action article was provided to Livescience in partnership with the National Science Foundation.

Hydrological studies in the Rocky mountains involving the tiny mountain pine beetle a species of bark beetle have big implications for water resource management in Colorado and elsewhere.

A team of National Science Foundation-funded scientists is investigating how a rampant beetle infestation could change the quantity and quality of drinking water in Colorado.

Scientists say bark beetles have killed about 90 percent of Colorado's lodgepole pines 4. 5 million acres of trees.

In earlier years cooler temperatures in fall and winter checked bark beetle populations in western North america.

and effects such as bark beetles or parasites on stressed trees were measured not. Different than uncontrolled burns Predicting the effects of climate change on trees is difficult

These include the larvae of the palm weevil a type of beetle in a number of tropical regions;

Beetles account for the most commonly eaten group of insects. I happen to like more the immature beetles the grubs.

They're softer Sorkin said. They don't have the exoskeleton and they are more flavorful but to each his own.

#Forests Recover Quickly After Bark beetles Attack SAN FRANCISCO A forest ravaged by the red hand of death also known as a bark beetle attack recovers quickly with little ecosystem damage scientists said here today (Dec 9) at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

The potential effects of massive tree die offs in Western forests have been a concern since a sudden uptick in bark beetle attacks in the late 1990s.

Even when up to 80 percent of trees were killed by beetles Ewers and his colleagues saw little evidence of these worrisome effects.

Photos of Destructive Invasive Species Even though bark beetles have an enormous visual impact the forest is resilient to the attack Ewers told Livescience.

because beetles don't kill all the trees at once the survivors gobble up extra water and nutrients freed up by the fatalities both studies found.

In four different study sites 40 percent of older trees grew two times faster in the years after bark beetles munched through the forest Rhoades and his colleagues found.

or nitrogen but overall there is very little change after a bark beetle infestation Ewers said. Even though the bark beetle visual impact is really impressive and striking there's many things going on in that forest that makes it resilient to the attack

and so those compensating mechanisms result in little impact in what the ecosystem itself is doing Ewer said.

It does not take into account the situation the realities of the conditions on the ground in whitebark pine forests said Jesse Logan the retired head of the U s. Forest Service's bark beetle research unit.

Climate change has made the high-elevation whitebark pines more accessible to the destructive beetles. Bear battle The fight over the delisting of the Yellowstone grizzly population is a years-long saga.

When the agency first delisted the grizzly bear from the Endangered Species list in 2007 it estimated that 16 percent of the whitebark pine in the habitat had been affected by beetles.

We were able to launch a study in the summer of 2009 to measure the impact of mountain pine beetles in whitebark pine he said.

and Arizona where climate change has made trees more susceptible to bark beetle outbreaks that in turn result in increased wildfires.

and insects such as beetles from the grapes a capability that some wineries already possess in other optical approaches.

especially midges mosquitoes flies beetles and spiders as well as grass seeds and berries. On the wintering grounds

Adding to the danger of the dry brush is the bark beetle over western forests which is killing scores of trees

#Satellites Spy Beetle Attacks on Forests A new computer program detected a slow-motion decline and subsequent revival of forests in the Pacific Northwest in recent years.

and seen in several areas through the Northwest was caused byâ mountain pine beetles. His program also detected a similar pattern of damage caused by the western spruce budworm.

Outbreaks of pine beetles have occurred in several areas according to the release including near Mount Hood in the 1980s an outbreak that peaked in 1992

Â Pine beetles still pose a huge threatâ to forests throughout the West. Kennedy's program also recognized a subtler decline of forests near these two mountains.

and cotton bollworms and compared the effects with those of mealworms injected with the peptide. When ingested by insects the poisonous chemical called orally active insecticidal peptide-1 was as toxic as the synthetic insecticide imidacloprid the group reported today (Sept. 11) in the journal PLOS ONE.

The venom was more potent against cotton bollworms than against termites and mealworms which eat stored grains rather than crops results showed.

And bark beetles may pick up the air bubble pops inside a plant a hint that trees are experiencing drought stress.

Nadkarni worked as a field assistant in Papua new guinea during the 1970s studying long-horned beetles (Cerambycids. The group's local assistants would collect beetle larvae during the day and roast them at night.

and many insects (including pests such as bark beetles in the West or gypsy moths in the East) reproduce more quickly and often.

Beetles scorpions and other insects may not be found on most restaurant menus at least in the Western world

Beetles wasps grasshoppers and other insects are very efficient at converting the food they eat into body mass take up very little space

Other vulnerable pests include the southern pine beetle (Dendroctonus frontalis) the brown marmorated stinkbug (Halyomorpha halys) and ticks (Ixodes sp.

Experiments with a tiny Asian beetle that is a natural predator to the adelgid show some promise in keeping the insects in check.

Dazzling Photos of Dew-Covered Insects</a p>A delicacy among many African tribes the palm weevil(Rhychophorus phoenicis)is collected off the trunks of palm trees.

About 4 inches (10 centimeters) long and two inches (5 cm) wide the weevils are fried easily pan

A 2011 report from the Journal of Insect Science found that the African palm weevil is an excellent source of several nutrients such as potassium zinc iron and phosphorous as well as several

The larvae of the mealworm beetle(Tenebrio molitor)is one of the only insects consumed in the Western world:

The nutritional value of mealworms is hard to beat: They' re rich in<a href=http://www. livescience. com/29377-copper. html>copper</a>sodium potassium iron zinc and selenium.

Mealworms are also comparable to beef in terms of protein content but have a greater number of healthy polyunsaturated fats.</

The record cold snap sweeping much of the United states blasted states hit hard by the emerald ash borer an invasive beetle that was detected first in 2002.

Other new groups included the cicadas and beetles. Two important groups of animals dominated the Permian landscape:

Spiders scorpions millipedes and centipedes survived as well as the newer groups of beetles. The only new insect group of the Triassic was the grasshoppers.

Terrestrial turtles also eat a variety of foods from earthworms grubs snails beetles and caterpillars to grasses fruit berries mushrooms and flowers.

and tomato skewers seasoned with mealworms crickets and other critters. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos joked that he had to pick cockroach out of his teeth as he got on stage during the more traditional sit-down dinner portion of the evening.

Nicole Sawyer and John Cairney at the University of Western Sydney have estimated the size of individuals of the Australian Elegant Blue Webcap (Cortinarius rotundisporus) at more than 30m in diameter about the size of tennis court.

but the tree is being ravaged by the mountain pine beetle which develops faster and survives winter more easily thanks to warmer temperatures.

To be sure the beetles have been around for a long time and they aren't the whitebark pine's only problem.

Since my last visit the Forest Service estimates the beetle has killed more than 4. 5 million whitebark pine trees in Montana alone.

Other invasive pests vulnerable to subzero temperatures include the southern pine beetle (Dendroctonus frontalis) the brown marmorated stinkbug (Halyomorpha halys) and several species of ticks (Ixodes sp.

Other finds include ants beetles wasps midges and mammal hair all crowded together in the amber fragments offering a rich view of the 20-million-year-old forest ecosystem.

like bark beetles, says Mantgem. Bark beetles have caused many massive tree die offs in the region in recent years.

And the mortality increases that Mantgem and his team captured may be symptoms of climatic stress that make the forests more liable to such catastrophes.

they can become more susceptible to things like the pine beetle, says Werner Kurz of the Canadian Forest Service in Victoria, British columbia.

The mountain pine beetle has devastated the forests of western Canada. The outbreak currently covers 14 million hectares roughly 3. 5 times the size of Switzerland,

Nature Newsthe ability to adapt to a new environment may not always be beneficial for long-term success in flour beetles at least.

Beetles that were offered and ate a novel food, even with their ancestral food all around them, suffered over multiple generations, according to a study presented last month at the Evolution 2009 meetings in Moscow, Idaho.

We saw that these beetles have a massive degree of behavioural plasticity but that their evolutionary success was hindered due to their adaptability,

Agashe tested Tribolium castaneum, the ubiquitous flour beetle, by offering the beetles wheat flour their ancestral diet and maize (corn) flour,

The researchers tracked how much of each flour the beetles had consumed by looking at the ratio of carbon-13 to carbon-12 in ground-up beetle carcasses.

After only two weeks, Agashe found, the beetles'diet shifted to almost 30%maize flour. This was a never-before-seen food source,

The researchers let the beetles multiply through six generations, and tracked adult and larval numbers to assess immediate as well as long-term success. There was only a 4%increase in corn use over six generations, reports Agashe.

In other words, the beetles ate a lot of maize initially but then the rate tapered off. Furthermore the beetle populations that shifted to eating maize most quickly tended to have the lowest population sizes and stability.

and 60%fewer adult rootworm beetles emerged from such plants. Although the team has created not a commercially viable crop,

Nature Newscanadian researchers have decoded the DNA of the tree-killing fungus found in the mouths of mountain pine beetles,

Further genome sequencing of the beetle and pine tree species should help forest managers design better pest-control tactics,

Mountain pine beetles (Dendroctonus ponderosae) have eaten their way through vast swathes of western North american pine forests,

As the burrowing beetles tunnel under the bark to feed and lay eggs, they release spores of the blue-stain fungus (Grosmannia clavigera),

and allows the beetles to continue to infest. Bohlmann and his colleagues assembled the fungus's 32.5-million-base-pair genome

For the other two species the beetle and the tree the researchers are concentrating mainly on expressed gene sequences, fragments of the complete DNA sequence, rather than the genomes in their entirety.

They've already amassed one of the largest insect libraries of gene transcripts for the bark beetle from more than a dozen beetle life stages and body parts.

and say which population of trees is interacting with which population of fungus and which population of beetles,

who studies the interaction between bark beetles and fungi at the University of Montana in Missoula.

Comparing the blue-stain fungus with free-living or pathogenic fungi will shed light on how the beneficial fungus helps the beetles thrive,

Using genomics to stop the bark beetles is a bit of a long shot for sure, admits Chris Keeling,

For example, the boll weevil was once the main worldwide threat to cotton. As farmers sprayed pesticides against the weevils,

bollworms developed resistance and rose to become the primary pest. Similarly, stink bugs have replaced bollworms as the primary pest in southeastern United states

or whether there is an equal distribution of numbers between species. The team looked at the bugs, nematodes and fungi that attack the hated Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata).

resulting in fewer potato-munching beetles and larger potato plants. Although the work of Crowder and his group does not address the issue of yields from organic versus conventional farms

Maurice Leponce, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciencesthe male elephant scarab beetle, Megasoma elephas fights for females and food with a formidable horn.

despite concerns about droughts, wildfires and bark beetles surging as the world warms. Ecosystem productivity is rising at high latitudes, with a roughly 50%increase in the amount of carbon cycling through northern landscapes since the 1950s,

not only offer hope to farmers battling the beetle, but also provide an incentive to protect wildlife habitat:

They found that avian predators did indeed pick off a lot of beetles: in the rainy season peak time for beetle activity borer infestation almost doubled

birds reduce the beetles dirty Work on one farm, hungry birds warded off beetles from coffee beans worth around 4%of the total value of the annual crop.

That may not sound like much, says Karp, but"in farming, every little bit helps, especially because often you re barely scraping by

the rate of shift varied significantly for different groups and among individual species. Fungi, beetles, true bugs, mites,

Another invader that has been brought under control is the red turpentine beetle (Dendroctonus valens. In North america, the beetle mainly attacks dead or ailing trees.

But the beetles, which were introduced to China in the 1980s, have wiped out more than 10 Â million pine trees in northern provinces since 1999.

A study led by Sun Jianghua, an entomologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Zoology in Beijing, found that the interaction between the beetles

and their symbiotic fungus Leptographium procerum is key to their personality change in China (J. Â Sun et Â al.

says Sun. One of these induces trees to release large amounts of the compound 3-carene a strong attractant to the beetles that is not released in response to the north American fungal variant.

The finding has led to a series of successful projects to trap beetles using 3-carene.

Sun s findings raise the possibility of a potential reinvasion of the United states by the red turpentine beetle

She has been studying the invasion of the harlequin ladybird (Harmonia axyridis) in Europe and, by working with Chinese researchers

In Asia, pine-wood nematodes spread with the help of Japanese pine sawyer beetles (in the Monochamus genus). The worms enter the respiratory system of hatching beetle pupae in the trunks of diseased trees

and then hitchhike in the beetles when they move to healthy trees. As the young beetles feed, the nematodes leave through the insects'mouths.

Once infected trees often die within a year and their hollow trunks provide an ideal place for mature beetles to mate

and lay eggs in. The pests seem to prefer certain pine forests over others, but the reason has not been clear."

says Sun. Â To examine the fungi s role in the relationship, the team fed nematodes and beetles with different types of fungus in a Petri dish.

"The fungus also allowed the beetles to survive better and grow faster, says Sun. The researchers found that Sporothrix sp. 1 also increased the trees'production of diacetone alcohol,

which increases growth and reproduction in the beetles and nematodes. The key now, says Mota,

although poisonous to livestock, were resistant to attack by weevils. This spawned a niche industry that develops

mountain pine beetles and blister rust fungus once thwarted by the cold, dry climate have devastated the trees,

#Green Energy Scheme To Burn Beetle-Infested Trees For Electricityaldo Leopold described the burning of wood as re-releasing the sunshine the tree depended upon to grow.

Since the late 1990s Colorado has had to deal with unusual numbers of beetle-killed pine trees.

Mountain pine beetles are native to North america and normally infest some trees every year but warmer winters have meant their populations are now unusually high.

discovering that when dung beetles get lost they can navigate their way home by looking at the Milky way.

Dung beetles Use the Milky way for Orientation Marie Dacke Emily Baird Marcus Byrne Clarke H. Scholtz Eric J. Warrant Current Biology epub January 24 2013.

Male rhinoceros beetles grow huge unwieldy horns half the length of their body that they use to fight for females.

Many types of insects (like mealworms) don't even require water since they get enough from their food.

The protein is very selective generally not harming insects in other orders (such as beetles flies bees and wasps.

Earlier he'd been photographing a brightly-colored fungus beetle for project called Meet Your Neighbors that's dedicated to reconnecting people with the wildlife on their own doorsteps

#Giant Beetle Threatens Palm trees Of Hawaiino one knows exactly how the coconut rhinoceros beetle made its way to Hawaii

In 2007 the beetles destroyed an estimated 50 percent of the palm trees on the island of Guam.

The beetles could have come from a variety of places including areas where they are deemed invasive

and a pheromone lure that's attractive to nocturnal beetles. Since the beginning of the year coconut rhinoceros beetles have been caught in over a dozen traps.

Officials initially identified a particularly productive breeding site in a mulch pile on the base's golf course

Officials are now in a race against time to quell the spread of the beetle which can destroy palm tree date palm sugarcane and banana tree populations.

A potential method for detecting the beetles involves the use of acoustic monitoring devices to determine which trees are infested.

Richard Mankin an entomologist with USDA previously employed sound and vibration detection devices to locate the beetle in Guam.

There's a number of insects like the coconut rhinoceros beetle that you can't see when they get into tree trunks.

As a result the beetles spread to most areas of the island and now the invasive population is controlled through community efforts.

For example Guam residents are educated to chip up and burn dead trees an ideal breeding ground for the beetle's larvae.

In Hawaii trapped coconut rhinoceros beetles are destroyed in compost bins heated to temperatures between 140-180 degrees Fahrenheit.

which kills the beetles. HDOA and APHIS are also working to develop a long-term federally funded eradication effort

which may include the controlled introduction of biological predators like a fungus that's known to attack the beetle.