Q&A: Why flies matter, their vital role in ecosystems, and surprising diversity

Summer is the season for flies, which belong to an insect group that scientists call Diptera. Many fly species are more ...
EurekAlert!

Insect DNA metabarcoding to assess the state of health of forests

Global changes are profoundly affecting forest ecosystems. Droughts, combined with high temperatures and attacks from pathogens and certain insects, are leading to increased mortality of some key tree ...
University of Wyoming

UW Researchers Team Up With Girl Scout to Study Bee Sampling Methods

Zoe Short shows off a monarch butterfly she named Russell in front of UW’s Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center pollinator garden. Short, a recent UW graduate from Douglas, was the lead author of a ...
The Telegraph

MEEKS; How to submit plant, insect samples for identification

Many samples are brought into the extension office every week. The samples vary from insects and plants to manure. The majority of the samples are brought into the office for identification purposes.
JSTOR Daily

Evaluation of Sample Preservation Approaches for Better Insect Microbiome Research According to Next-Generation and Third-Generation Sequencing

Zi-Wen Yang, Yu Men, Jing Zhang, Zhi-Hui Liu, Jiu-Yang Luo, Yan-Hui Wang, Wen-Jun Li, Qiang Xie https://www.jstor.org/stable/27291268 Copy URL The microbial ...