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Insect

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Name: Insect

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents

Nitrogen Fodder For Insects

The abundance of nitrogen in fungus gardens grown by tropical ants is due to nitrogen-fixing bacteria living symbiotically with the insects. The discovery of the essential element's source solves a longstanding conundrum in insect chemical ecology.The ... [Chemical & Engineering News - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Nitrogen, Insect, Fungus

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents (in Biology)

Bigger not necessarily better, when it comes to brains

DON'T MISS —Researchers cure colour blindness in squirrel monkeys — [17 Sep 2009] — Researchers used gene therapy to cure two squirrel monkeys of colour blindness - the most common genetic disorder in people....Genome of Phytophthora infestans decoded ... [Science Centric - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Phytophthora infestans, Queen Mary, University of London, Insect

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 3 Documents (in Politics)

Central Intelligence Agency

Britain's torture cover-up continues

The latest high court opinion in the case of Binyam Mohamed reveals Britain's commitment to covering up complicity in tortureIn the government's desperate commitment to cover up British complicity in torture, the drip-drip-drip of evidence seeping out ... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Torture, Binyam Mohamed, Central Intelligence Agency, Jay Bybee

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)

Hygiene the key to effective grain storage

Well managed aeration and effective hygiene can overcome the majority of storage pest problems facing grain growers in Western Australia.The majority of grain in the west is exported but now deregulation means more is going in smaller shipments, and growers ... [Farm Weekly - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Insect, Aeration, Agriculture, efficacy

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)

ICRISAT symposium to reduce farmers losses due to pests

Hyderabad, Nov 19 : The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) will organise a two-day symposium on Biosafety and environmental impact of genetically modified organisms and conventional technologies for pest management ... [NewKerala.com - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Insecticide, Biosafety, Patancheru (India), Insect, International Crops Research Institute for the ...

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)

Biotechnology-regulations: A pressing imperative for developing countries

In most developed countries, regulations are in place that allow governments to make informed decisions in balancing potential benefits and potential risks of biotechnology products. But this is not the case in many developing countriesIt is, therefore, ... [Jamaica Gleaner - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Genetically Modified Crops, Biotechnology, Tolerance, Biosafety

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Health)

Fly paper to capture circulating cancer cells

Just as fly paper captures insects, an innovative new device with nano-sized features developed by researchers at UCLA is able to grab cancer cells in the blood that have broken off from a tumor. These cells, known as circulating tumor cells, or CTCs, ... [Research & Development - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Tumor, Metastasis, Insect

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

NYT: Myhrvold's 'Willy Wonka enthusiasm' feeds high-tech cooking

: Inside a nondescript warehouse on a nondescript street of this Seattle suburb is a research laboratory that looks like it came out of a James Bond movie had Q the gadget master been a gastronome.Here Nathan Myhrvold, a former chief technology officer ... [Seattle Post Intelligencer - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures, Insect, Laser, Hurricanes

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Collector's butterflies set to take center stage

A resident of Tianjin municipality has collected up to 1,300 butterfly specimens in the past two decades.Liu Wenming has been heard boasting of his collection, which is said to be the envy of experts at the local butterfly museum.Liu is holding a roving ... [CHINAdaily - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Tianjin, Insect

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Mariah Carey's demands for 20 white kittens blocked by health and safety

Health and safety officials have turned down Mariah Carey's request to be surrounded by 20 white kittens and 100 white doves as she turns on Westfield shopping centre's Christmas lights.The 39-year-old singer had made a series of demands including being ... [Telegraph - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Mariah Carey, Insect, Phillip Schofield

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Cyborg Beetles Employed as Military Weapons

By implanting miniature neural and muscle stimulation systems into beetles, scientists for the first time have been able to control the flight of insects. (Electrodes are implanted at the pupal stage and then later connected to remote control electro ... [Discovery Channel - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Cyborg, Military/Armed Forces, Biological Weapon, Electrode

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Hemlock Pest's Natural Predator Released to Mitigate Infestation

- 11/16/2009 Hemlock woolly adelgids (HWA) -- aphidlike insects that have destroyed stands of hemlocks throughout the East Coast -- were first identified in hemlocks in the central Finger Lakes in summer 2008 and then in trees in Cornell University Plantations' ... [USAgNet - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Lansing (Michigan, United States), Predation, Insect

Quotes

...in the science of earthworms (vermiculture), demonstrated in detail how vermicompost can bring life back into depleted soils - ERF's motto being "Earthworm is the pulse of the soil, the healthier the pulse the healthier the soil" . This living soil, in turn, produces a healthy farm...

Organic practitioners celebrate outstanding agriculture techniques [Third World Network - 5 hours ago]

Speaking about this new, freely available resource, Benedict said: "The SIT has proven highly effective over large areas when used against other insects. We produced this supplement because we believe that the technique has been overlooked as an anti-mosquito method. Its efficiency in low vector-population settings precisely complements insecticide-treated bednets, indoor residual spraying and larval control: when they are at their weakest, SIT is at its strongest. This supplement gives researchers and public health authorities information about the state-of-the-art as well as identifying specific challenges and requirements for successful implementation."

Sterile mosquitoes could ward off malaria [NewKerala.com - 9 hours ago]

...' Sharon Bomer Lauritsen, executive vice president, food and agriculture for the BIO, issued the following statement in response: "There's no doubt that farmers continue to embrace biotechnology because of the benefits these products deliver, specifically crops that yield more per acre with lower production costs while using farming practices that better protect the land and environment. 'This is especially true for American farmers, four out of five of whom choose biotech crop varieties over conventional crops that require more production inputs such as sprays to control insect pests and tilling to control weeds. 'Thanks to biotechnology, farmers have adopted no and reduced-tillage systems which utilize herbicidal weed control rather than plowing. This is delivering important benefits in the form of improved soil health and water retention, reduced runoff, fuel conservation, reduced greenhouse gas emissions and more efficient carbon storage in the soil. 'In 2007, the fuel savings alone was equivalent to removing 31.2 billion pounds of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or equal to removing nearly 6.3 million cars from the road for one year. 'Furthermore, biotech crop varieties have dramatically reduced farmers' reliance on pesticide applications. Since 1997, the use of pesticides on global biotech crop acreage has been reduced by 790 million pounds, an 8.8 percent reduction. 'Decades of documented evidence demonstrates that agricultural biotechnology is a safe and beneficial technology that contributes to both environmental and economic sustainability. Many experts agree that agricultural biotechnology has an important role to play in helping to feed and fuel a growing world. In the future, biotechnology's benefits will only improve.' BIO represents more than 1,200 biotechnology companies, academic institutions, state biotechnology centers and related organizations across the United States and in more than 30 other nations. BIO members are involved in the researchresearch and development of innovative healthcare, agricultural, industrial and environmental biotechnology products. BIO also produces the BIO International Convention, the world's largest gathering of the biotechnology industry, along with industry-leading investor and partnering meetings held around the world."

BIO disputes report's arguments; says U.S. farmers continue to favor biotech crops [AgProfessional - 19 hours ago]

"But plant-feeding insects are known to be nitrogen limited and the plant biomass nitrogen is lower than what the insects need for survival" said Currie

Ant farmers use bacteria to make their gardens grow [Sify - 11/20/2009]

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Tesco withdraws brown rice [Food Standards Agency - 8 hours ago]
Dutch cooperative blurs food prejudices [Fresh Plaza - 8 hours ago]
Lake Region Extension Roundup Set for Jan. 5-6 [USAgNet - 9 hours ago]
Sterile mosquitoes could ward off malaria [NewKerala.com - 9 hours ago]
Identifying virally infected and vaccinated org... [PharmCast - 10 hours ago]
Take a thermos to your Library! [McGill University - 11 hours ago]
Misting Pump suits portable and stationary appl... [Industrial News Room - 11 hours ago]
Mosquitoes Employ Active Hearing [Softpedia - 11 hours ago]
Science Past: Science Past from the issue of ... [Science News Online - 11 hours ago]
Where humans go, pepper virus follows [Science News Online - 11 hours ago]
Show must go on [Gulf News - 15 hours ago]
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SPECIAL REPORT:Spreading wildfires could bring ... [People and the Planet - 17 hours ago]
How animals react to the rain season [The Arusha Times - 17 hours ago]
Insecticide killed Ontario dogs [CBC - 19 hours ago]
BIO disputes report's arguments; says U.S. farm... [AgProfessional - 19 hours ago]
Wired US visionary takes to the TEDx stage [Wired.co.uk - 19 hours ago]
Tree o'clock record breaker - Bass Reflections [Lake District National Park - 19 hours ago]
From toxic dust and algae to ill winds from Africa [EurekAlert! - 19 hours ago]

Blogs

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Latin Cicada (Cicada Love) [Living the Scientif... [ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - 11/20/2009] tags: insects, comedy, humor, bentekr, animation, streaming video I love cicadas, and this video about a cicada who learns the "wrong" song is just so sweet! ...
Love Story [Living the Scientific Life (Scienti... [ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - 11/20/2009] tags: insects, comedy, humor, bentekr, animation, streaming video About the true love of two apple worms becoming separated during harvest times, but like ...
Britain's torture cover-up continues [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 11/20/2009] The latest high court opinion in the case of Binyam Mohamed reveals Britain's commitment to covering up complicity in tortureIn the government's desperate commitment ...
Melanie Drane: "There Is a Crack in Everyt... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 11/19/2009] In novels, poems and everyday life itself, if one is alert, small, ordinary things point toward the larger issues in a human existence. "Only when I am ...
Newsweek: Butterfly Ballot in 2000, Obama as 20... [NewsBusters.org blogs - 11/19/2009] As part of an ongoing retrospective of the the first decade of the 21st century, Newsweek has ginned up a boatload of top 10 lists and assigned some Hollywood celebrities ...

Audio/Video

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Nabokov's The Original of Laura (Dying Is Fun). [Slate Magazine - 11/10/2009]
Wing evolution 1of4 [Mefeedia Video Tag : evoluti - 10/23/2009]
Amarillo College NHM R E HOWARD BUTTERFLY &... [Mefeedia Video Tag : biolo - 10/07/2009]
"Canadian Beef Consolidated Further / ... [Mefeedia Video Tag : biotechnolo - 09/28/2009]
"Canadian Beef Consolidated Further / ... [Mefeedia Video Tag : biotechnolo - 09/28/2009]

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