Adaptability explains why insects are so widespread and why they are the most abundant group of animals on earth. Insects show resilient and flexible locomotion, even with drastic changes in their body structure such as the loss of a limb. A research group now understands more about adaptive locomotion in insects and the mechanisms that […]
Climate change does not protect the insects – ScienceDaily
In a normal year, biologists Daniel Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs spend about six months in Costa Rica, where they do research and environmental protection efforts in Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), a world heritage site in the northwest that includes a network of parks they helped build in the 1980s and which has grown to […]
Researchers Are Studying the Molecular Basis of Eye Size Variation in Insects – ScienceDaily
The fascinating compound eyes of insects are made up of hundreds of individual eyes known as "facets". In the course of evolution, an enormous variety of eye sizes and shapes has emerged, which are often adaptations to different environmental conditions. Scientists led by an Emmy Noether research group at the University of Göttingen, together with […]