From Burglars to Bugs: Anti-Theft Dye Shows Promise for Insect-Tracking Studies
A fluorescent dye designed for use as an anti-theft tool and aid in forensic criminal investigations also works well for marking insects in mark-release-recapture efforts, a new study shows.
Putting the Field in Fieldwork: Testing the Quality of Commercial Data
Repeatability measures suggest that large ecoinformatics datasets gathered by commercial agriculture could be a robust source of data for entomologists.
Birds, Bugs, and Agriculture: Is It a Sin to Kill a Mockingbird?
Do birds benefit crops by eating pest insects? Or are birds the pests for eating those very crops themselves? A new review in the open-access Journal of Integrated Pest Management examines the latest science on understanding how birds impact farm fields and how they factor into IPM programs.
Researchers Share New Method for Detecting Insect Egg Predators
A proof-of-concept study shows insect eggs can be marked with protein that can be later detected in a gut-content analysis of arthropod predators that fed on the eggs. Researchers say the method has applications in biological control and beyond.