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"Animals Bow to Their Mechanical Overlords"

"Several years ago, a group of American cockroaches discovered four strangers in their midst. A brief investigation revealed that the interlopers smelled like cockroaches, and so they were welcomed into the cockroach community. The newcomers weren’t content to just sit on the sidelines, however. Instead, they began to actively shape the group’s behavior. Nocturnal creatures, cockroaches normally avoid light. But when the intruders headed for a brighter shelter, the rest of the roaches followed."

Source: Nautilus, 02/14/2014

"EPA Approves Kalamazoo Startup’s Spider-Based Insecticide"

"KALAMAZOO -- Spiders have been doing a very efficient job of killing insects for millennia. Now, a Kalamazoo company has federal approval to borrow spiders’ natural chemistry as an insecticide."

Source: WWJ Newsradio, 02/07/2014

"Neonicotinoid Pesticides Harm Bees’ Foodgathering Ability"

"BRIGHTON, UK -- Controversial pesticides ingested by bumble bees can seriously impact the insects’ ability to collect food, even at very low levels of contamination, finds new research from the University of Sussex and the University of Stirling."

Source: ENS, 01/30/2014

"Genetic Weapon Against Insects Raises Hope and Fear in Farming"

"Scientists and biotechnology companies are developing what could become the next powerful weapon in the war on pests — one that harnesses a Nobel Prize-winning discovery to kill insects and pathogens by disabling their genes."

Source: NY Times, 01/29/2014

"GMO Corn Failing To Protect Fields From Pest Damage: Report"

"Researchers in the key corn-growing state of Illinois are finding significant damage from rootworms in farm fields planted in a rotation with a genetically modified corn that is supposed to protect the crop from the pests, according to a new report."

Source: Reuters, 08/29/2013

Radar Antennae Show Disease, Pesticides Are Harming Bees' Navigation

"Honey bees are being fitted with tiny radar antennae to find how disease and pesticides are effecting the insects as they hunt for food."

Source: Telegraph, 07/29/2013

Oregon Temporarily Bans Insecticide After 50,000 Bumblebees Die

"In response to a massive bumblebee die-off blamed on pesticides, the Oregon Department of Agriculture issued a temporary restriction Thursday on 18 insecticides with the active ingredient dinotefuran."

Source: Portland Oregonian, 06/28/2013

"Honeybee Food May Contribute To U.S. Colony Collapse -- Study"

"Bee keepers' use of corn syrup and other honey substitutes as bee feed may be contributing to colony collapse by depriving the insects of compounds that strengthen their immune systems, according to a study released on Monday."

Source: Reuters, 06/04/2013

"Long-Lived Insects Raise Prime Riddle"

"Drivers who end up behind John Cooley this week will quickly lose their patience. Cruising around the eastern United States with his car window open, he slows down or stops every few hundred metres, cocks an ear and taps on a data-logger strapped into the passenger seat."

Source: Nature, 05/29/2013

"How Pesticides Pushed Cockroaches Into Rapid Evolution"

"In the 1980s, manufactures began making cockroach baits that combined sweet glucose with deadly insecticides. By 1993, many cockroach populations somehow developed an aversion to the bait. Now, 20 years later, scientists finally understand how the roaches beat these traps."

Source: io9, 05/24/2013

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