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EurasiaReview https://www.eurasiareview.com/ 23032018-some-neonicotinoid- pesticides-are-more-toxic-to- bees-than-others/

By Eurasia Review

You’ve probably heard that the safety of neonicotinoid pesticides to bees is a matter of considerable … Read more...

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2018-04-02T12:00:00.0000000Z

Science Daily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180405100141.htm

Source: University of Helsinki

Summary: Novel technologies are being sought to replace the traditional pesticides used to protect plants, particularly edible plants …

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2018-03-31T18:00:00.0000000Z
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Science https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/mite-s-method-hitchhiking-not-recommended By Yao-Hua Law  If you’re a mite looking to travel, you could do worse than being swallowed by a slug. These spherical arachnids (pictured), most …

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2018-03-31T08:00:00.0000000Z
Penn State researchers and PlantVillage team members Peter McCloskey, center, and Amanda Ramcharan, right, work with a collaborator from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in Tanzania. Image: Courtesy of Google A Tanzanian cassava farmer, left, learns to use a plant disease mobile app developed as part of the PlantVillage initiative led by Penn State researchers. Image: Penn State

PennState http://news.psu.edu/story/513236/2018/04/02/research/penn-state-developed-plant-disease-app-recognized-google

By Chuck Gill

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A mobile app designed by Penn State researchers to help farmers and others diagnose …

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2018-03-29T14:00:00.0000000Z
when you can't find what you want to read, write it yourself, says Olly Olly Hill at home at the launch of Cicadas of New Zealand Olly Hills

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https://thespinoff.co.nz/parenting/24-03-2018/the-new-zealand-insect-expert-and-author-aged-10/ By Angela Cuming

Olly Hills couldn’t find a field guide to native New Zealand cicadas, so he decided to fill the gap in our biological …

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2018-03-28T18:00:00.0000000Z
Bootlace worm. credit: Johan Rosengren

UQ https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2018/03/potential-insecticide-discovered-earth%E2%80%99s-longest-animal

A family of potent protein neurotoxins has been discovered in bootlace worms.

Found in the northern hemisphere and reaching up to 55 …

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2018-03-28T18:00:00.0000000Z
Burying beetle feeding its young. Credit: Per Smiseth

ScienceDaily https://www.ed.ac.uk/biology/news-events/news-2018/physical-disability-boosts-parenting-effort-beetle

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Animals that carry a physical impediment can work harder to rear their young as a result, an …
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2018-03-28T18:00:00.0000000Z

Live Science https://www.livescience.com/62093-why-cockroaches-can-survive-anything.html

By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science Contributor

The genome of the American cockroach has been sequenced for the first time, revealing why these creepy- …

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Wired https://www.wired.co.uk/article/eating-insects-bugs-food-exo-entocycle-flyingspark-essento-eat-grub When four crickets provide as much calcium as a large glass of milk, why isn't everyone eating bugs already? The world doesn't have enough … Read more...
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