Performance apparel, footwear and accessories marketer Under Armour has signed a multi year partnership with rugby club, Wasps and has become the club’s official technical wear partner. According to a Wasps press release, it ...
Tags: Performance apparel, footwear
An inventory of wild-caught caterpillars, its food plants and parasitoids, has been going on for more than 34 years in Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), a protected area of approximately 1200 km2 in northwestern Costa Rica. As a ...
Tags: ACG, Local Parataxonomist, ZooKey, parasitoid wasp
Understanding who feeds on whom and how often is the basis for understanding how nature is built and works. A new study now suggests that the methods used to depict food webs may have a strong impact on how we perceive their makeup. Once ...
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A new study by a team of KU Leuven and international researchers has found that the chemical structure of queen pheromones in wasps, ants and some bees is strikingly similar, even though these insects are separated by millions of years of ...
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After studying specimens from the Nearctic deposited in the United States National Museum of Natural History and some specimens in the Canadian National Collection of Insects, researchers have found 16 new species of wasps from the Nearctic ...
Tags: new species, wasps, Nearctic region
"A silkworm spins all its silk till its death and a candle won't stop its tears until it is fully burnt." This Tang poem accurately describes the property of the silkworm. Despite technological development, a silkworm can only produce a ...
Munich-based Can2Close was founded in 2012 by Andreas Kleiner, Robert Kruetten and Moritz von Grotthuss. It said that its 'c2' resealable end is a new mechanism that replaces the standard stay-on tab opening of beverage cans with a simple ...