insects
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Hit the (Forest) Floor – The Importance of Leaf Litter
We’ve learned about leaf color change in part 1, and why trees lose their leaves in…
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Does Climate Change Impact Infectious Diseases?
As the climate warms, it can change where disease outbreaks and epidemics take place. This is…
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How are forest insect outbreaks like wildfires?
Wildfire and insect outbreak both affect our forest in complex and interconnected ways. Learn more in…
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Insects Get Sick Too: The Study of Insect Pathology
Understanding the diseases insects get has implications for protecting our beneficial insects, managing pest species, and…
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Five things that really stink about the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
Marmorated stink bugs stink—literally and metaphorically. They are invasive, are damaging crops, and are spreading at…
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No Teeth, Long Tongue, No Problem: Adaptations for Ant-eating
A strict ant diet plus convergent evolution leads to cool adaptations.
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Bug Sleuth: One Entomologist’s Mission to ID a Mysterious Swarm of Wasps
I recently came across a swarm of wasps and did not know what they were. For…
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Are We Running Out of Invasives?
Have we already experienced so many invasive species that we’re exhausting the pool of potential species?