A 2014 survey of 200 fields in 22 South Dakota counties showed that approximately 30 fields in 18 counties had signs of sudden death syndrome

In many animals, nutrition—not genetic differences—controls the appearance of certain physical traits

“We wanted to understand how the monarch is processing these different types of information to yield this constant behavior — flying southwest each fall."

Findings will inform a variety of genetically based mosquito control strategies that focus on creating more males than females

Malaria, a scourge on human society that still kills more than 400,000 people a year, is often thought to be of more modern origin—ranging from 15,000 to 8 million years old

“This metholodogy provides a much more accurate and realistic image of the shape, size and interactions of soft tissues in the very small brains of insects.”

The numbers of mosquitoes that do survive pesticide use are small

New insights offer new targets for controlling these pests

Finding opens the door for much broader participation in citizen science

Research shows that roaches aggregate by tracing pheromones in feces from other roaches