Scientists have uncovered a set of neurons in fruit flies that shut down in cold temperatures and slow reproduction, a system conserved in many insects, including mosquitoes, which could provide a ...

"This could cause a shift in their mating patterns, and reproductive rates are really important for population persistence." Researchers make troubling find while examining insect behavior: 'We're ...

Tropical insects are often already near the ceiling of their temperature tolerance, where an insect has to cope with so much heat damage that reproduction rates falter.

News How Bacteria Interfere with Insect Reproduction Scientists identify the genes responsible for bacteria-controlled sterility in arthropods.

Our study involved field and controlled-environment experimental tests of the impact on sexual and potential asexual reproduction of attack by individuals of the two herbivore species, individually ...

Research team led by NARO and the University of Miyazaki has discovered that the symbiotic bacterium Rickettsia induces cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) in Nesidiocoris tenuis, a predatory insect ...

While reproduction is, obviously, very different in humans and insects, the fruit fly can be a model for understanding animal reproduction at a fundamental level. For example, the seminal fluid ...

However, effects caused by insects feeding on plant sap are likely to differ from the effects of folivory. We assessed the general patterns and sources of variation in the effects of sap feeding on ...

And now, 29 million years later, they stand as a record of insect reproduction that could be unlike anything paleontologists had seen before.

While reproduction is, obviously, very different in humans and insects, the fruit fly can be a model for understanding animal reproduction at a fundamental level.