Are ‘murder hornets’ from Asia invading North America? A Japanese entomologist who’s been stung by one and lived to tell the tale explains what’s true about these predatory insects.
Are raccoons ravaging your radishes? Container gardens might be a good option for saving your plants.
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Humans obtain bacteria through the foods they eat. But how do bees collect bacteria that live in and on them? And where do they pick up these microbes?
In the heat, tomato plants can’t fight off the hungry tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta.
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Plants have evolved techniques for protecting themselves from heat and insect attacks – but when both these stresses happen at once, one defense may neutralize the other.
Paul Weston, Charles Sturt University and Theo Evans, The University of Western Australia
Wet and bulky cattle dung is very unlike marsupial dung that Australian dung beetles are adapted to deal with, meaning native dung beetles tend to leave it alone. But help from abroad is at hand.
These grasshoppers, like many insects around the world, are declining.
Dave Rintoul