The first fossil thrips in Africa: this tiny insect pest met its end in a volcanic lake 90 million years ago
Thrips are tiny insects—their sizes range between 0.5mm and 15mm in length and many are shorter than 5mm. But the damage they ...
Indonesia to Use 1 Million African Weevils to Spur Palm Output
Indonesia is betting on tiny bugs from Africa to help boost its palm oil production, as the broader sector grapples with ...
Indonesia to use African weevils to spur oil palm output
JAKARTA: Indonesia is betting on tiny bugs from Africa to help boost its palm oil production, as the broader sector grapples ...
How Thailand became a world leader in edible insects
Thai edible insect business is booming. Can it inspire the world? Growing up in Thailand’s northeastern Isan region, Suwimon ...
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Africa: The First Fossil Thrips in Africa - This Tiny Insect Pest Met Its End in a Volcanic Lake 90 Million Years Ago
South Africa's first and only Black palaeoentomologist, Sandiso Mnguni, who studies fossil insects, recently described a fossil thrips from Orapa Diamond Mine in Botswana that's more than 90 ...
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Largest Insect on Earth Headed For Extinction Thanks to Our Love of Chocolate
We estimate that about 80 percent of the Goliathus cacicus population has been wiped out in Côte d'Ivoire if we consider the amount of forest destroyed for cocoa farming. Goliathus regius has ...
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World’s largest insect, Africa’s giant Goliath beetle, faces extinction
by the international trade in dried insects. Luca Luiselli, a professor of biostatistics and ecology at the University of Lomé (Togo), has researched threatened species in African forests for 30 ...