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 ...

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 ...

“Both symbiosis and horizontal gene transfer have profoundly influenced insect evolution.” One of the study’s striking ...

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

Beetles have been pollinating flowers for millions of years,' says Beulah Garner, the Museum's Senior Curator of Coleoptera (beetles). 'Over this time, evolution has perfected the insect-plant ...

But a new study of stick insects suggests that evolution may sometimes repeat itself in a predictable manner, which could ...

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 ...

Of course we care about the insects, and we hope that what we learn may help us appreciate and protect them better." The paper, titled "Evolution of temperature preference behavior in flies of the ...