Researchers have discovered that plants benefit from a greater variety of interactions with pollinators and herbivores. Plants that are pollinated by insects and have to defend themselves against ...

The interactions between insects and plants encompass a spectrum from antagonistic herbivory to mutualistic pollination and defensive symbioses. Plants employ constitutive and induced ...

Biologists have curated the red milkweed beetle's genome and its arsenal of genes related to plant-feeding and other biological traits. They sequenced and assembled the entire genome of the ...

Plant–insect interactions form one of the most intricate and consequential components of terrestrial ecosystems. These relationships range from mutualistic pollination and herbivory to complex ...

A recent study of fossil plants reveals plant–insect interactions across the Triassic–Jurassic boundary in the Sichuan Basin, South China. This study was conducted by an international research team ...

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A world-first study reveals an acoustic interaction between plants and insects. In the study, the team focused on female moths and found that they make a critical decision—where to lay their ...

The findings reveal that insects developed modern patterns of herbivory long before flowering plants flourished, upending a long-held hypothesis Jack Tamisiea Paleontologist Conrad Labandeira, the ...

Researchers say they found evidence plants and insects can interact through sound, in Tel Aviv TEL AVIV (Reuters) -There is evidence that plants and insects interact through sound, researchers at Tel ...

A mating pair of red milkweed beetles pictured in the spring of 2024 on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Studying the secrets of how the common red milkweed ...