Antarctic sea urchin shows amazing energy-efficiency in nature's deep freeze
...ing over proteins, says Marsh. But the embryos and larvae of the Antarctic sea urchin can perform this vital...considering the extreme environment in which these larvae live and an almost non-existent food supply. The Antarctic sea urchin resembles a red pincushi...The enemy of my enemy is my friend
...sin Desert of SW USA attract predatory bugs to the larvae and eggs of the plant's dominant herbi...zed armyworms, with the voracious wasp larvae inside of them, may die before they damage their hostplant too much. Similarly predatory...Major fossil find reveals Asian origins of salamanders
...were able to see all the stages of the life cycle, larvae and adults, as well as a range of different kinds of animals," said Shubin. "The exquisite condition of the fossils offers clues to evolutionary strategies--larval details such as gills in adult animals, for example." Salamanders are living fos...Super hearing in flies may improve hearing aid technology
...ating singing crickets, on which they deposit tiny larvae that grow into large maggots by eating the crickets from the inside out. Ormia can detect singing crickets using a unique set of eardrums that are located behind the head as reported in Science by Hoy and his post doctoral fellow, Daniel Robert in 19...Fly on a treadmill demonstrates super directional hearing
...ickets -- where they climb aboard and deposit tiny larvae that develop into larger maggots while feasting on the crickets, from the inside out. First the flies must locate and home in on the chirping cricket, Hoy notes. But for tactical reasons -- "probably to avoid being kicked off," he says -- the flies...Coastal research project at UC Santa Cruz receives major boost in funding
...rockfish populations, for example, we suspect that larvae from one location disperse to completely different...locations where they grow into adults." Since fish larvae are carried more or less passively by ocean currents, studying the movements of water along the coas...Ticks have potential to transmit cat scratch disease
...est those animals that are common food sources for larvae and nymphs. "Can we find them in lizards? Can we find them in rodents?" asks Dr. Chomel. As to whether ticks can transmit these diseases to humans, Dr. Chomel is cautious in his conclusions. "We have no clear experimental demonstration of ticks be...Researchers pinpoint how tubeworm babies are dispersed to colonize new vent sites
...as strawberry seeds, Marsh notes. Where these tiny larvae go is determined by the deep-sea currents and the ...w degrees above freezing, Marsh explains. Tubeworm larvae mustwithstand these cold temperatures as they are dispersed by the currents, hopefully to a home in ...Study finds wind, currents play key role where young fish settle
... a patch of sea grass in which to settle. Red drum larvae face a lot of challenges traveling from the Gulf o...winds, tides and currents, play in moving red drum larvae from the Gulf into the nursery grounds of Aransas and Corpus Christi bays. Doctoral student Cheryl B...Rensselaer effort to pull mussels at Lake George looks promising
...not been found elsewhere in the lake. Zebra mussel larvae were first found in Lake George in 1995, but researchers believed that lake chemistry probably low calcium and pH levels kept them from maturing. A culvert carrying storm runoff with high calcium levels may account for the proliferation of adult mu...Scientists find genetic basis of insect's resistance to engineered crops
...uding cotton, which is a host plant for the moth's larvae have been genetically encoded with the insecticidal Bt toxin, which kills all budworm moths except rare individuals that contain a pair of the recessive genes. The popular Bt crops give farmers a tool for controlling pests like the tobacco budworm...Trouble in paradise? 'Natural' pest control requires careful planning, Science authors conclude
...illars, causing an early death before the parasite larvae metamorphose into winged insects. Researchers wanted to map out exactly who eats what, to keep track of the real impact of non-native species on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. The food webs, which drew lines between the three members of the food webpl...Radio waves stop marine pests dead in their tracks
... of electric generating stations. Their dust-sized larvae attach to the interior of the pipes, then grow to approximately the size of a lima bean, clogging the pipes to the point that theyre unusable. Zebra mussels immigrated to the United States in the mid-80s as stowaways on foreign ships. Although first...Phased-out Bt corn variety dramatically cut growth rate of black swallowtail caterpillars
...acted more predators. The disappearance of monarch larvae was rapid over the next six days, but the disappea...owth rate of the swallowtails varied dramatically; larvae 7 meters from the corn were three times as large as the larvae located one-half meter away from the ...URI oceanographers link warmer water temperatures and the decline of winter flounder
...res and the growth and survival of winter flounder larvae and examined the relationship between temperature ...ugh the late larval stage resulted in 10-16% fewer larvae surviving to the metamorphosis stage at 6 weeks. Winter water temperatures in Narragansett Bay hav...Parasite offers natural way to control leaf-eating slugs
...roducing another generation of larvae that will infect other slugs. The worm of interest is known as a nematode, Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita. Before it can be used to control slugs in the United States, researchers will have ...Monarch butterflies, corn pollen coexist in cornfields
... in cornfields sometimes support monarch butterfly larvae at the same time the corn is shedding its pollen, ...ed milkweed plants and noted the number of monarch larvae and, in cornfields, whether pollen was being shed. In Minnesota and Wisconsin, corn pollen was shed......ith the recent documented decline of fish eggs and larvae over the last several years, the presence of this predator at critical spawning times could have far-reaching effects on the local commercial fishing industry. In addition, ctenophores may also be altering patterns of copepod abundance in spring, the...Caterpillars make noise to fend off intruders, researchers discover
... a tapping sound coming from where she was raising larvae in her home late one night. She had found that the sound was coming from two caterpillars on the same leaf, raising a question as to the purpose of the sound. In the laboratory, the researchers conducted 53 trials in which they placed a second cater...Fresh evidence points to marine bacteria as a source of anti-cancer drug
...hat live inside Bugula neritina, and are passed in larvae from one generation to the next, are the likely source of the anti-cancer compound. "This paper presents a whole series of experiments from a variety of different directions that provide evidence that this bacteria may indeed be the agent for produ...