Post Views: 2,332 Membersracides are small insects belonging to the super-family Membracoidea and to the order Hemiptera : aphids, leafhoppers and cicadas, characterized by an
Author: Benoît GILLES
Insect flight: aerodynamics, musculature and 2/2-way control system
Post Views: 1,994 Insects are the first organisms to have developed the ability to fly, 170 million years ago (lire article on phylogeny). The acquisition
Hatching of a gynandromorph butterfly (male/female)
Post Views: 2,515 At the Academy of Natural Sciences of the University of Drexel (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), a strange butterfly of the species Lexias pardalis emerged
Discovery on the symbiotic adaptation between the mushroom ants and their fungus
Post Views: 1,719 An interesting discovery about the mutual relations between the leaf-cutting ants (“mushroomists”) and the mushrooms they cultivate has just been published in
Insect flight: Anatomy of wing 1/2
Post Views: 2,418 Insects are the only invertebrates that have acquired the ability to fly (place insects in the classification, read th article). Unlike other
Agaonides wasps and fig trees: a history of mutualism
Post Views: 4,029 Insects and plants have maintained interdependent relationships since the appearance of flowering plants in the Cretaceous (145-65 million years) (read th article).
Mouth apparatus and feeding in insects: General
Post Views: 3,547 General description of different types of insect mouthparts adapted to diet Insects, present on earth for at least 479 million years (read
New Phylogeny of insect evolution established
Post Views: 2,094 A new international team of researchers has just established a new phylogeny* of insects that can trace the evolutionary history of different
Ants of the genus Cephalotes
Post Views: 2,511 Presentation of a species of ants encountered during my stay at STRI au Panama Flying ants of the genus Cephalotes Ants of
Acoustic mimicry of butterflies in anthills
Post Views: 1,129 Discovery of an acoustic mimicry used by the caterpillars of a butterfly to deceive ants and obtain food and care essential to
