The dynamics between insects and plants in degraded ecosystems offer unique insights into how anthropogenic pressures and environmental changes alter traditional ecological relationships. In these ...

Biologists have curated the red milkweed beetle's genome and its arsenal of genes related to plant-feeding and other biological traits. They sequenced and assembled the entire genome of the ...

The fossil record of plant–insect interactions offers an exceptional window into the deep-time co-evolutionary dynamics between terrestrial flora and their insect herbivores. Over hundreds of millions ...

A team of researchers at the University of Zurich has discovered that plants benefit from a greater variety of interactions with pollinators and herbivores. Plants that are pollinated by insects and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Myrmecophily is pronounced mur-muh-KOF-uh-lee and literally means ant love. With a pretty literal meaning, it refers to the ...

Plants can move in ways that might surprise you. Some of them even show 'sleep movements,' folding or raising their leaves each night before opening them again the next day. Now, researchers offer ...

Diffuse coevolution is also known as multi-species or guild coevolution. It occurs when several species collectively influence one another. An example is pollination systems in which plants interact ...

When it comes to biodiversity, researchers and the public tend to focus on large-scale patterns. This overlooks a hidden but precious diversity: small, inconspicuous wasps, midges, flies, beetles and ...

Researchers say they found evidence plants and insects can interact through sound, in Tel Aviv TEL AVIV (Reuters) -There is evidence that plants and insects interact through sound, researchers at Tel ...

A mating pair of red milkweed beetles pictured in the spring of 2024 on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Studying the secrets of how the common red milkweed ...

What is myrmecophily? It represents an important interaction in nature. The word can be split into two parts: myrmex and philia. These are the Greek words for ant (myrmex) and love (philia), ...