Bacteria Can Be Used for RNA Interference in Insects
Bacteria in the gut of disease-bearing insects — including the mosquito which carries the Zika virus — can be used as a Trojan horse to help control the insects’ population, […]
Spider Bites Highly Unlikely to Cause Bacterial Infections, Study Finds
Last year, spider expert Richard S. Vetter, a former staff research associate at the University of California, Riverside, debunked the myth that venomous spiders are commonly found in bananas and […]
Competition among Fungi and Bacteria in the Guts of Bees
A clearer picture is emerging of microorganisms that colonize the guts of some bee species, thanks to studies by a team of scientists with the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) […]
Bacterial Diversity in Butterflies Changes Drastically During Metamorphosis
For the first time ever, a team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has sequenced the internal bacterial makeup of the three major life stages of a butterfly species, […]