insect
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A study published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry by Oxford University Press reports that widely used flea and tick treatments for dogs and cats may pose a serious threat to insects in the natural environment.
From Science Daily
Personal tragedy had no more importance than the incognizant plight of insects.
"With pPro-MobV we have brought gene-drive thinking from insects to bacteria as a population engineering tool," said Bier, a faculty member in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology.
From Science Daily
The absence of crop-damaging insects also means he doesn't have to use pesticides.
From Barron's
The findings, published in Science of the Total Environment, mark the first study to investigate how microplastics affect an Antarctic insect and the first to confirm plastic particles inside wild-caught midges.
From Science Daily
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