Common Hoverfly Parasitoid Wasps! Today we're looking at a wasp I found in my backyard. This little insect lays its eggs inside of other hosts (hoverflys), which consumes the hoverfly larva from the ...

In the early 1950s biologists at Brooklyn College were using an electron microscope to pursue a lead that the leafhopper, a common insect that is about the size of a rice grain and named after one ...

In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we demonstrated that male spiders use olfactory ...

Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) has revolutionized the realm of microscopic analysis. By delivering astonishingly detailed images of minuscule entities such as insects, bacteria, or even the ...

The process of designing these stamps using technology is in itself an interesting story. The tiny insects have been photographed by a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). Then they become ...

Another study focused on the trichoideum sensillum in the insect Nabis rugosus, where researchers utilized scanning and transmission electron microscopy to explore the mechanical functions and ...

Oeggerli made images of herbs and spices with a scanning electron microscope, then enhanced ... the heat of compounds called piperines discourages insects from eating the plant.

The “micro” is because I specialize in shooting very small things using a scanning electron microscope at the School of Life Sciences in Muttenz, Switzerland. “Naut” is because I feel like ...