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Firewood and Invasive Insects – NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation New York’s forests are under attack from numerous invasive exotic insect pests. In years past, we have been hit with Chestnut blight, European gypsy moth, Dutch elm disease and Beech bark disease, all with devastating results. One common way many of these insect pests are [...]

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Yale Environment 360: Bee Species Inventory Shows Riches of Biodiversity A new inventory of bee species by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History notes more than 19,200 kinds, more than all species of birds and mammals put together. Among the myriad variations are many bees that do not make honey or live in [...]

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Tropics insects ‘face extinction’   Many tropical insects face extinction by the end of this century unless they adapt to the rising global temperatures predicted, US scientists have said. Researchers led by the University of Washington said insects in the tropics were much more sensitive to temperature changes than those [...]

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Flowers ‘wave’ at passing insects By Matt Walker BBC Flowers "wave" at insects to get their attention, scientists have discovered. The finding helps explain why many flowers waft in the breeze, and reveals a hitherto unknown trick used to attract pollinators. Mobile flowers are visited more often by insects and [...]

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