Unlocking genome of world's worst insect pestThe Australian Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator the Hon Kim Carr, said - at the BIO 2008 International Convention in San Diego, California - that the... — full story
International award for Australian moth researchA senior CSIRO entomologist, Dr Marianne Horak, has won a major international award - the inaugural JO Westwood Medal - for her book Olethreutine Moths of Australia... — full story
UA researchers create robot driven by the brain of mothIn a notion taken from science fiction afficionados, University of Arizona researchers presented a robot that moves by using the brain impulses of a moth at the 37th annual Society... — full story
From moths and cicadas come improvements to solar cellsDesigning better solar cells might seem a question of electronics or chemistry, but for one University of Florida engineer, it starts with bugs. Peng Jiang, an assistant professor of... — full story
It's not a good idea to put all your eggs in one basket... unless you're a senita moth. Found in the parched Sonoran desert of southern Arizona and northern Mexico, the senita moth... — full story