Non-native plant feeding insects can be serious agricultural pests, but a new study estimates that many such invasive insects remain undiscovered. (Getty Images) Over the past two centuries, thousands ...

Over the past two centuries, thousands of non-native insects have hitchhiked to the United States in packing material, on live plants, and in passenger baggage. Scientists with two U.S. Department of ...

We’ve all seen our fair share of strange traits and adaptations, whether in nature or online, but this might be the weirdest.

The specimen information for leafhoppers collected in this study are shown in Table 1, and the data downloaded from GenBank are shown in Table 2. The specimens were immersed in absolute ethanol and ...

The Cercopidae constitutes a diverse family found around the world, with 1540 species described and distributed in 176 genera 1. They are xylem-feeders feeding on a large range of plants. Adults are ...

ENT copy Purchased from the Cullman Endowment. Chapter 1. A History of the Study of the Heteroptera -- Chapter 2. Major Workers on the Heteroptera -- Chapter 3. Sources of Information -- Chapter 4.

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Results from a recently published study suggest that efforts to reduce biological hitchhiking on live plant imports, often referred to as 'biosecurity,' are working. However, more than a century of ...