In natural and agricultural ecosystems, omnivorous insects are omnipresent. Whether they are 'true omnivores' that require both plant and prey resources to complete their life-cycle, 'herbivores ...

With bloated bellies and hairy legs, female flies try to look bigger to get food from courting mates. But male flies, in turn ...

For Professor Michal Segoli of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, these tiny creatures are a lifelong fascination and the ...

In the insect world things are often not what they seem, especially if you're a hungry predator. For 250 million years, insects have survived because they often appear to be something other than ...

For more than a century, researchers have argued over the evolutionary origin of insect wings. Although many hypotheses ... Moreover, she adds, the origin of wings is not the only facet of their ...

“Both symbiosis and horizontal gene transfer have profoundly influenced insect evolution.” One of the study’s striking findings is the binary distribution of pectinases among leaf beetle ...

Get one insider’s take on the new pests growers face, and some of the new management options available to them.

Insect Ecology and Adaptation - research group studies diverse topics of insect ecology and evolution. Our model systems include both economically important forest insects (e.g. pine sawflies and bark ...

At the ISEE lab, we integrate bottom-up (focused on specific interactions) and top-down (addressing broader community and ecosystem dynamics) approaches to investigate how symbiotic micro-organisms ...