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Corn Conundrum
How do you keep destructive insects from developing resistance to the toxins in genetically modified plants – resistance that turns insects into efficient and effective crop-killing machines? In the...
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Mosquitoes, Ticks and Horse Flies, Oh My!
(Image courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine) The warm weather of summer often draws us out of the house for a trip to the pool, a hike in the woods or (less fun) to mow the lawn. And all...
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What Exoskeletons Are Hiding in Your Closet?
What critters are living in your house (other than you)? Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Dr. Holly Menninger, director of public science for the Your Wild Life program at NC State, which...
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Got Ticks? There’s an App for that.
Ticks. They're awful. Image source: CDC We’ve all heard the stories – Mild winter! Longer tick season! Disease! Pestilence! Hide your pets and children! But it’s summer, and at some point you’re...
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Researchers Seek Public’s Help To Aid Trees
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Rosemary Hallberg, of USDA’s Southern Region Integrated Pest Management Center (SRIPMC), which is housed at NC State. The SRIPMC is launching a “tiny terrors”...
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Bee Economy: Honey, Mites and Diesel Drive Pollination Fees
Bees don't always work for free. Many crops rely on pollination by honey bees and, as a result, there’s a market for the services of professional beekeepers and their bees. And the cost of those...
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Researchers Develop Technique to Remotely Control Cockroaches
Remote control cockroach cyborgs Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a technique that uses an electronic interface to remotely control, or steer, cockroaches. “Our aim was...
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Bringing Bugs into the Classroom
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Dr. David Buchwalter, a researcher in NC State’s Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology. Every so often, The Abstract likes to highlight outreach...
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Stick It To Cankerworms
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Steve Frank, an assistant professor of entomology at NC State. You can learn more about the Cankerworm Project here, and keep up with Steve’s entomological pest...
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Drawing on Real Life
Click on the image for an enlarged view. Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Jennifer Landin, a teaching assistant professor of biology at NC State who teaches a course on biological illustration....
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How Do Bees Make Honey? (It’s Not Just Bee Barf)
Click to enlarge. (Photo credit: North Carolina State University) Last weekend, my daughter asked me how bees made honey, and I realized that I didn’t know the answer. How do bees make honey? I did...
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Nature in Your Backyard: Very Hungry Caterpillars
Photo: Steve Frank [Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Holly Menninger, director of public science in NC State’s Your Wild Life program. The post originally ran on the Your Wild Life blog.] Over...
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Ants…In…Space
Image: NASA Editor’s note: This is a guest post by David Hunt, a writer in NC State’s News Services office. When NC State postdoc Clint Penick collected a group of pavement ants in a small mountain...
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What’s Eating You?
It’s a jungle out there. Humans can be infected by more than 1,400 parasites – viruses, bacteria, fungi, etc. It can be bad enough when one nasty parasite takes hold – it’s certainly no fun to be...
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Can ‘sticky bands’ protect your trees from cankerworms?
Female cankerworm moth. Photo credit: Steve Frank. Click to enlarge. Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Steve Frank, an entomology researcher at NC State. If you live in the eastern United States,...
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Urbanization: Good for Pests, Bad for Trees
Historic Lawyer’s Hill (left) and downtown Baltimore City. Images from Google Maps. Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Steve Frank, an assistant professor of entomology at NC State.The post first...
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