But Otto an entomologist who usually studies marine mites is working to change that. Livescience corresponded with Otto to hear more about his experiences with these remarkable animals.
You can contribute phenology data to Nature s Notebook an online program the USA National Phenology Network manages that collects observations of leaf phenology from professional and amateur naturalists.
We now have a better understanding of why trees in urban areas are infested by so many of these pests study researcher Steve Frank an assistant professor of entomology at North carolina State university said in a statement.
The foundation has approached also the Smithsonian Museum of Natural history in Washington D c. the Estuarium on Dauphin Island Ala
For instance just 1500 golden lion tamarin a magnificent primate covered in red fur are left in the wild the Smithsonian National Zoological Park reports.
#What An Ancient Lake Reveals at Its Core Kay Behrensmeyer is a curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural history.
and gains of visceral fat (belly fat) that surrounds organs according to the paper in the journal Life sciences.
Another commonly cited use of the phrase is American naturalist John Burroughs 1875 set of essays Birds and Bees Sharp Eyes and other Papers.
and have a healthier diet said Harry Klee a University of Florida plant scientist. Klee and his colleague Linda Bartoshuk a psychologist have found that volatiles chemicals in fruits
and independent botanical researcher who has studied extensively the plants in The himalayas and China. Bamboos are thought to have evolved in the Southern hemisphere on an ancient landmass called Gondwanaland according to a release from Phytokeys.
Famed naturalist John Muir fell in love with Yosemite and became the chief voice in its preservation.
& Tear-Drinking Images It was one of those natural history moments that you long to see up close de la Rosa said in a statement.
Bird watchers Barr helps monitor mercury levels in avocets and other shorebirds at marshes and ponds throughout the salt ponds restoration project.
whether those are true subspecies according to the University of Michigan's Museum of Zoology. Lions face threats from hunting habitat loss
Classification/taxonomy Dromedary camels (Camelus dromedarius) and the domestic Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) were named in 1758 by Swedish zoologist Carl Linnaeus who only knew of the domestic variety.
if they're upside down said lead study author Jean Just a taxonomist at the Natural history Museum of Denmark.
and not for one night but for an extended period there's a tendency for a lot of people to hope for insect mortality Deborah Mccullough a professor of entomology
because that could freeze entomologist Tom Tiddens told NPR. They actually fold themselves in half
And though most chupacabras found in Texas have been identified as canids (the zoological family that includes dogs coyotes
and wolves scientists looked at both species'DNA according to the Journal of Mammalogy. Males will travel up to 100 miles to find food
Watch a Tick Bite in Action 1. Repel the bugs Insecticides can be used to repel ticks said Thomas Mather a public health entomologist at the University of Rhode island and the director of tickencounter. org.
and camping aren't the most common ways to catch a tick-borne disease said Kirby Stafford III the state entomologist at The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station and the author of the Tick Management Handbook.
There is simply no reason to fear them said Piotr Naskrecki of Harvard university's Museum of Comparative Zoology.
and responsiveness to therapy often demonstrating a remarkable insight into the natural history of disease processes as we understand them.
We know a bit about it in the high Arctic said study researcher Jaelyn Eberle the curator of fossil vertebrates at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural history.
It weighs 5 to 6. 7 ounces (145 to 190 g). The smallest bat is the bumblebee bat according to the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.
and the identification of fossilized leaf fragments we know that their habitat at the Tar pits was at a much lower elevation during the Ice age said Anna Holden an entomologist at the Natural history Museum of Los angeles County (NHM)
'Holden paired up with leafcutter-bee expert Terry Griswold an entomologist with the U s. Department of agriculture to try to pinpoint characteristics that distinguish between the nest cells of different leafcutter bee species. Piecing the evidence together The researchers
The new finds was detailed in the American Journal of Botany. Follow Megan Gannon on Twitter and Google+.
It's unlikely that the woman's bananas were infested truly with deadly spider eggs said Richard Vetter a retired research associate of entomology at the University of California Riverside.
The most frequent observations of tree-basking were in areas where there were few places to bask on the ground implying that the individuals needed alternatives for regulating their body temperature the authors wrote online Jan 25 in the journal Herpetology Notes.
University of Tennessee zoologist Vladimir Dinets and colleagues decided to pin the phenomenon down. In the course of conducting their crocodile research the scientists kept sharp eyes out
The new data was unveiled at the United for Wildlife International Wildlife Trafficking Symposium taking place Feb 11 and 12 at the Zoological Society of London.
Dan Chaney an expert on ancient plants at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural history; and Lucã a Desoto a professor at Portugal's University of Coimbra and a leader in analyzing tree growth cell by cell.
The vast majority of feathered dinosaurs in Liaoning are collected by farmers who live there said study author Luis Chiappe a paleontologist and director of the Dinosaur Institute at the Natural history Museum of Los angeles County.
In a paper published in the journal New Phytologist plant ecologist Nishanth Tharayil and graduate student Mioko Tamura of Clemson University show that kudzu invasion results in an increase of carbon released from the soil organic matter into the atmosphere.
and Canada combined Malcolm Campbell receives funding from the Natural sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and from Genome Canada.
The findings were published March 26 in the journal Frontiers in Zoology. Follow Agata Blaszczak-Boxe on Twitter.
Mycologists Bryn Dentinger and Laura Suz from the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew UK used DNA sequencing to identify three new species in a packet of dried porcini mushrooms purchased from a supermarket
and the Arabian peninsula but because they have been hunted so extensively wild ostriches'range has been reduced to Sub-saharan africa according to the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.
what is known currently study researcher Gavin Svenson an invertebrate zoologist at The Cleveland Museum of Natural history said in a statement.
and group shows at venues including the Berlin Botanical Museum the Montalvo Arts Center the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the American Museum of Natural history.
and then talking to another botanist in South africa about a different but similar clonal desert shrub and the two had heard never of each other or their work.
The finding detailed in the journal Frontiers in Zoology earned a team of international scientists the Ig Nobel in Biology.
Dinosaurs That Learned To fly Finding a new species Anzu wylieli's story starts about a decade ago with paleontologist Tyler Lyson now at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural history.
At the conference Matthew Lamanna a vertebrate paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural history in Pittsburgh came over with surprising news:
Their territories can be up to 50 miles wide according to the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.
Written by University of Montana entomologist Diana Six and five other Montana-based scientists the July 30 column was essentially a public version of a letter they
Plant scientists at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany in the UK are trying to create synthetic#wheat by breeding bread wheat with the ancient grasses it is related to.
Op-Ed) Marc Bekoff emeritus professor at the University of Colorado Boulder is one of the world's pioneering cognitive ethologists a Guggenheim Fellow and cofounder with Jane Goodall of Ethologists for the Ethical
which genetic changes occur during evolution to work out how much time was needed for all that diversity to evolve said Terry Brown a life sciences faculty member at the University of Manchester in England who was involved not in the study.
Elephants were considered the tanks of the time until eventually the Romans figured out how to defeat war elephants in later times said study co-author Alfred Roca an animal scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
7 Ancient Health Ideas Explained Identifying the origin of the chili pepper is not just an academic exercise senior author of the study Paul Gepts a plant scientist at the University of California Davis said in a statement.
Sloths in the wild though sleep about as much as humans according to research by the Planck Institute for Ornithology in Starnberg Germany.
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and liver according to a study published in the journal Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. Breathing can cause an animal to lose a lot of water.
The dama gazelle is not only the world's biggest gazelle it is also the rarest according to the Smithsonian National Zoological Park.
which was published June 22 in the Journal of Experimental Botany. To figure out what might be causing the changes Teixeira and a team of researchers analyzed genes in the bark of five high-quality cork trees and five low-quality cork trees growing in Portugal.
Anthropology primatology conservation Editor's Note: The researchers depicted in Sciencelives articles have been supported by the National Science Foundation the federal agency charged with funding basic research and education across all fields of science and engineering.
In addition to providing up-close encounters with some of the planet's most magnificent species today's zoological parks are placing a growing emphasis on conservation awareness and action.
And over the next month three Chicago institutions the Chicago Zoological Society's Brookfield Zoo the Lincoln Park Zoo and Shedd Aquarium will likewise be working with local and state lawmakers to raise awareness
and not for one night but for an extended period there's a tendency for a lot of people to hope for insect mortality Deborah Mccullough a professor of entomology
and ecology Sandra Rehan lead NHAES researcher and assistant professor of biological sciences at the University of New hampshire's College of Life sciences and Agriculture (COLSA) said in a statement.
or even extinction of a species. John Wraith NHAES director and dean of the College of Life sciences and Agriculture expressed enthusiasm for the bee hotel project and its related studies noting the impact that pollinators
They know when they're being touched Simon Gilroy a professor of botany at the University of Wisconsin-Madison told Live Science.
and 22 feet (6. 65 m) Deep in 1917 American naturalist Jesse Walter Fewkes pegged the structure as a prehistoric water reservoir.
of anthropology at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural history. It's hard to believe that Native americans who understood the landscape
Seven female bison raised in captivity in The british Isles will be reintroduced to a forest in Romania officials with the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) announced.
since about 1990 according to May Berenbaum head of the department of entomology at the University of Illinois. But despite their dramatic nickname these insects aren't that deadly.
In North america however hunting has reduced their range to isolated areas in Mexico western U s. wilderness areas southern Florida and southwestern Canada according to the Smithsonian National Zoological Park.
Offspring After mating the female will carry her young for a gestation period of 84 to 106 days according to the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.
This is a guest post by Elsa Youngsteadt a research associate in NC State s Department of Entomology.
Now scientists with the Illinois Natural history Survey are poring through the 160 pounds (73 kilograms) of raw amber from the Dominican republic
Amazing Amber Trove Rediscovered in Illinois This is a massively important resource said Sam Heads an insect paleontologist at the Illinois Natural history Survey who searched the museum's nooks and crannies for the amber collection.
But the collection at the Illinois Natural history Survey a division of the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois has never been sorted for beauty or for the best specimens.
Entomologist Milton Sanderson unearthed the treasure trove of amber chunks in May 1959 in the Dominican republic armed with a government collecting permit Heads said.
He was the state entomologist and I think that was his priority Heads said. I think polishing the amber was a pet project he did in his spare time.
Heads named the locust Electrotettix attenboroughi after British naturalist and filmmaker Sir David Attenborough. A description of the new species was published today (July 30) in the journal Zookeys.
A dinosaur spider armored fish and ghost shrimp are some the other creatures named for the naturalist.
Mast is a botanical term for the hard nut fruits produced by trees like beeches and acorns.
As a computational biologist I work in several fields of life science primarily in ecology and genetics and particularly with plants.
and storing them in botanic gardens or seed banks. I use mathematical and genetic models to determine how many seeds are needed
Charles darwin of course! He is a hero not only for his contributions to science but also for his fascinating life story his diligence and tenacity the challenges he faced in bringing radical ideas to the pretty conservative scientific audience of his time and sailing around the world!
One reason that I admire Pollan is the excitement and clarity of his book Botany of Desire
and natural history of four plant species. Pollan doesn't just describe the utility of plants he explores how humans
His way of teaching botany history cuisine and evolutionary relationships is exciting and I hope that my own writing
They can live on desert mountains as high as 4000 feet (1200 m). They get most of their water from eating plants to survive according to the Natural history Museum of Los angeles. Rams are herbivores.
and naturalists use when exploring the natural world. Our goal was to give kids an understanding of the science underlying healthy ecosystems and sustainability
FAO entomologist Winfred Hammond reported on Thursday. When they re-emerge as moths in a week to 12 days
Nature Newslike many remote islands, the Galapagos islands that fired Charles darwin's imagination are both a hotbed of biodiversity
says Joachim Gratzfeld, director of regional programmes at Botanic Gardens Conservation International in Richmond, UK.
the Chinese government sent a team of botanists to Xishuangbanna at the time a hinterland where diseases ran rampant to test
says Xu Jianchu, an ethnoecologist at the Kunming Institute of Botany and China's representative at the World Agroforestry Centre,
If we applied the same standards to Darwin's work, we'd say what a terrible experimenter he was.
in which a secret agent-cum-botanist hunts for a missing researcher believed to have discovered an apomixis'supergene'.
says Bruce Tabashnik, an entomologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson. The main way that insects become resistant is by altering the binding site of the toxin,
and Animal Use in the Life sciences meets in Rome. http//www. aimgroup. eu/2009/WC7 31 august-4 september The World meteorological organization hosts the Third world Climate Conference in Geneva. http://www
says animal scientist Jim Ireland at Michigan State university in East Lansing, who has called for more funding for agriculture research, particularly for farm animals.
Animal scientist Michael Roberts who was chief scientist of a previous USDA grant-giving body from 1998 to 2000,
says Winfred Hammond, an entomologist and the FAO's representative in Liberia. The situation was exacerbated by an early misidentification of the caterpillar as an armyworm (a devastating crop pest that regularly attacks eastern Africa,
was removed from her post after she sought to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles darwin's On the Origin of Species in the March issue (see'Turkish scientists claim Darwin censorship'.
'The articles on evolution and the cover with its picture of Darwin were pulled from the issue at the last minute.
and the agency promised a new special issue on Darwinism (see'Funder moves to quell Turkish censorship row').
T ŠBà °TAK produced a special Darwin issue in June, which included translations of articles from Scientific American and no Turkish authors.
the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) published a paper online by Donald Williamson, a retired zoologist at the University of Liverpool, UK,
It was accompanied by a short challenge from an invertebrate zoologist and a rebuttal from Williamson.
a soil and plant scientist at the China Agricultural University in Beijing and lead author of the survey,
and geneticist and plant scientist David Baulcombe got the agriculture prize for his discovery of small interfering RNA in plants,
says Ray Akhurst from the entomology division of CSIRO in Canberra. Aroian adds, Even at a quarter a pop,
with programmes on antibacterial drug development and protein-protein interactions as drug targets. www. drugdiscoverychemistry. com 28-29 april A symposium hosted by the Zoological Society of London examines the link between the conservation of biodiversity
It will be split into seven separately directed centres, such as life sciences and materials science, and projects will be monitored by a new oversight committee.
an entomologist at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing, has monitored pest populations at 38 locations in northern China,
an entomologist at the University of Minnesota in St paul. The finding reminds us yet again that genetic modified crops are not a magic bullet for pest control,
But several studies presented at a meeting of the Zoological Society of London last week challenged the largely anecdotal evidence linking conservation projects with a reduction in poverty.
The notion that increasing crop yields preserves forests and other native lands dates back to the father of the green revolution, the late US plant scientist Norman Borlaug,
says Phil Lounibos, a medical entomologist at the University of Florida in Vero Beach. It would be more valuable for the quick and dirty detection of viruses,
says Walt Koenig, an ornithologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New york. That's the central dilemma of behavioural ecology that we've been grappling with for a long time.
San francisco, won the prize for life science and medicine for his work on molecular mechanisms of pain.
But five years on, a spate of research, including 13 papers published on 20 july in a special issue of the journal New Phytologist,
co-author of a review of Amazon drought research in the New Phytologist issue3. These issues are not going to be resolved by technology that is in orbit today.
and one of the New Phytologist papers documents similar results from the longest-running Amazon drought experiment5.
a co-author on four modelling studies in the New Phytologist issue. But in the Northern hemisphere, fertilization experiments which involve pumping tonnes of CO2 into forest plots indicate that the effect is limited by the availability of nutrients such as nitrogen.
a 2009 report sponsored by China's National Natural science Foundation and China Geological Survey (CGS), part of the Ministry of Land and Resources (MOLR),
a plant scientist who is director of the National Research Centre for Plant Biotechnology and a known proponent of GM CROPS.
was conducted by plant scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, and is published today. It finds that gymnosperms
says Eimear Nic Lughadha, a plant scientist at Kew and a lead researcher on the plant risk assessment.
Stephen Hopper, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, says that the assessment will help countries to measure progress towards new targets to halt loss of the world's biodiversity by 2020,
says Robert Carneiro, an anthropologist at the American Museum of Natural history in New york. Gary Feinman, an anthropologist at the University of Illinois at Chicago,
Researchers, led by entomologist William Hutchison of the University of Minnesota in St paul, assessed the effects of planting maize (corn) genetically modified to produce Bt toxin,
Some farmers were very sceptical of entomologists telling them they needed to maintain non-Bt corn
and natural scientists, working shoulder-to-shoulder at Tel Megiddo and several other important Israeli sites. In the past, all too often, archaeologists and scientists worked together,
and a professor at the Kunming Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,
says James Strange, an entomologist at the USDA-ARS Bee Biology and Systematics Laboratory in Logan, Utah, a conference organizer.
says one conference attendee, Robbin Thorp, professor emeritus of entomology at the University of California,
When Bruce Tabashnik, an entomologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, first heard about the scheme, he was worried.
says Fred Gould, an entomologist at North carolina State university in Raleigh, who wasn't involved in the study.
The results are tremendous says entomologist William Hutchison at the University of Minnesota in St paul,
says Menno Schilthuizen, an evolutionary ecologist at the National Museum of Natural history of The netherlands in Leiden,
Fotis Kafatos, a molecular entomologist at Imperial College London who was the first president of the ERC,
Researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, and the Missouri Botanical garden in St louis sorted through 1. 24 million plant names from a number of data sets,
Nature Newsmodern botanic gardens are much more than just attractive strolling grounds. Many have labs in
which botanists and taxonomists ply their trade. And many take an interest in conservation of the world's flora,
Hulme says that many invasive plant species escaped from botanic gardens, and that the gardens do not do enough to keep their collections in check.
The field site he was visiting was near a botanic garden and he could see that many of the plants in the site had come from the garden.
there was evidence that they may have escaped from botanic gardens. For example, the Brazilian fruiting tree known as strawberry guava (Psidium cattleianum),
whether botanic gardens had cleaned since up their act. To find out, he looked at whether areas with more botanic gardens had more alien plants living there.
He used published accounts of the Gross domestic product, population density and alien species diversity of 26 counties.
Then he added to the mix the number of botanic gardens per unit area using a master list of gardens kept by Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI),
a global network of botanic gardens that is based in London. He discovered that they did,
although the effect was not strong once the prosperity of the region and the number of people living there were accounted for.
But 12%of the variation in alien-plant richness seems to be down to botanic gardens.
I just wanted to prick the conscience of botanic gardens, he says. Stephen Blackmore, head of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, UK, says that the botanic-garden community has been buzzing about Hulme's paper.
Many of the managers that he's corresponded with feel that the picture Hulme paints is a bit simplistic.
many share the sense that the era of botanic gardens as intentional introducers of plants to new areas is long past and that, these days,
. I am not saying that that lets botanic gardens off the hook, says Blackmore. He agrees that the issue is an important one to highlight.
BGCI is beginning a project with the Council of europe to develop guidelines about the management of alien and invasive species in European botanic gardens, according to Suzanne Sharrock, director of global programmes at the BGCI.
and folded into the organization's general guidelines for botanic gardens interested in conservation. She expects a draft of the European version of the guidelines to be available by August.
and trees that visitors see at botanic gardens. Hulme says some showy but potentially invasive species
Nature Newsthe sight of a feather in a peacock's tail, Charles darwin wrote in 1860,
But Darwin eventually made peace with the peacock's train, and its plumage has become the poster child for his theory of sexual selection, in
because Darwin had suggested it, and nobody had gone out and tested the idea, she says. As she expected,
including attention from Creationists who were delighted to see Darwin questioned. Petrie and The french scientists published a rebuttal5.
Nature Newsradiation released by the tsunami-struck Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant could have long-lasting consequences for the natural environment in the vicinity of the damaged Plant scientists estimate that in the first 30 days after the accident on 11 march, trees,
says research entomologist Jay Evans of the USDA's bee laboratory. The question is not why are bees getting sick,
Yukie Kajita, an entomologist at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, whose hometown of Koriyama is near Fukushima,
an environmental economist at the Norwegian University of Life sciences in Aas and a lead author of the study by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) based in Bogor, Indonesia.
Andrew Cunningham, a wildlife epidemiologist at the Institute of Zoology in London, and his colleagues fear that the next big epidemic could come from henipaviruses,
US plant scientists seek united front: Nature Newsthe perennial grass Miscanthus giganteus has all the makings of a biofuel superstar.
plant scientists will need to coordinate their activities. We're getting more like the physical sciences in the sense that we have to have bigger projects with enormous amounts of information,
Stacey expects that summit participants like all plant scientists, will tout their favourite species, but he hopes for unity in the programmes
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