Seeing red: why do all these beetles look like each other?

From: “Persistence of multiple patterns and intraspecific polymorphism in multi-species Müllerian communities of net-winged beetles”, M. Bocek, D. Kusy, M. Motyka and L. Bocak (2019). Frontiers in Zoology 16:38 https://frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12983-019-0335-8 We’ve all seen warning colouration – the stripes on bees and wasps, the bright hues of snakes and the colourful spots of tropical frogs all …

Plant oils: the future of food preservation?

From: “Insecticidal Activity of Four Plant Essential Oils against Two Stored Product Beetles”, K. Saeidi and H. Pezhman (2018), Entomology, Ornithology & Herpetology 7:3 https://doi.org/10.4172/2161-0983.1000213 Storage pests are a real problem in feeding the planet, and can result in huge losses of stored crops that have taken many months to grow. Insects, especially beetles such …

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