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Category: Research News

Recent entomological research from ESA journals, members, and beyond

Can Trained Bees Detect Cancer in Patients?

Back in 2006, Science Daily ran an article about two scientists who were using wasps to detect drugs, explosives, toxic chemicals, and other substances. Five years later in 2011, Dr. […]

Tiny Black Insects Invading North Texas

News reports from northern Texas claim that tiny black insects called hackberry nipple gall makers — also known as hackberry gall psyllids — are swarming around cars, homes and people. […]

277 New Wasp Species Discovered in Costa Rica

Costa Rica reveals astonishing biodiversity of braconid wasps, with 277 new species of the tribe Heterospilini described in the latest special issue of the open access journal ZooKeys. This is […]