These aphids make milkweed less appealing to monarchs

When oleander aphids invade milkweed, monarch butterflies lay fewer eggs and caterpillars take longer to mature, a new study shows.

Samantha Murray-Florida • futurity
July 27, 2023 ~6 min

Infected palm trees warn healthy neighbors of lethal disease

Palm trees infected with lethal bronzing disease emit signals to warn their healthy neighbor palms of a potential incoming threat.

Lourdes Mederos-U. Florida • futurity
June 2, 2023 ~6 min


How beetles use their butts to suck water from the air

Beetles can survive their entire lives without drinking liquid water. New research gets to the bottom of how they use their butts to do it.

Michael Skov Jensen-Copenhagen • futurity
March 22, 2023 ~7 min

Climate change may mean more stink bugs

Brown marmorated stink bugs, foul-smelling, voracious, wide-spread pests, could become even more ubiquitous with climate change.

Sara Zaske-Washington State • futurity
Sept. 26, 2022 ~5 min

Tiny pest-eaters benefit from smaller farm fields

"...natural enemies can be more abundant when agricultural landscapes are made up of smaller farm fields." Natural enemies mean fewer pests eating crops.

U. Michigan • futurity
Nov. 6, 2019 ~3 min

Could cockroaches really survive a nuclear apocalypse?

You might've heard that cockroaches would outlive humans in a nuclear apocalypse, but is that a myth?

Nerissa Hannink-Melbourne • futurity
Feb. 19, 2019 ~7 min

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