Planthopper bugs may be small, but they attract mates from afar by sending vibrational calls along plant stems and leaves using fast, rhythmic motions of their abdomen. In a new study publishing March ...

Scientists at Washington State University and China Jiliang University have discovered that the quality of the host rice plant determines whether the brown planthopper, a major pest on rice in Asia, ...

Life table construction is a comprehensive method for summarizing the survival and reproductive potential of a population 1. This method, which has been widely applied in the measurement of population ...

This cave planthopper species new to science is only the second dwelling exclusively in the subterranean depths of Brazil from its family. Surviving without seeing the light of the day at any point of ...

The Rural Development Administration (RDA) is transitioning from conventional "post-outbreak control" to a "preemptive ...

Rice is an important food crop worldwide, and the development of improved rice varieties is crucial for ensuring global food security. Pest infestation is among the most significant stress factors ...

Gears may seem like a purely human invention. And yet the basic interlocking mechanism found inside grandfather clocks and car steering systems has now turned up in the remarkably powerful legs of ...

A jumping insect has gears, scientists discovered, a rare instance in which man and nature independently converged on the same idea. It was not easy to verify. The planthopper (Issus coleoptratus) is ...