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...Insect repellents can be sticky or stinky. How about a shirt that keeps pesky pests away? Ex Officio's Buzz Off shirts, $22 and up, are made with permethrin, the same insecticide used in long-lasting antimalaria bed nets...
Lascaux's keepers are no longer using chemicals to eradicate fusarium; gone are the antibiotic patches and the quicklime. Geneste sees a few tiny insect colonies as evidence that a new ecological balance is taking shape, and there is talk of reopening Lascaux next year to a carefully restricted numbers of visitors. But that won't be the test of whether Lascaux has imparted a lasting lesson of humility to its custodians. Whether that lesson sticks will be determined by future generations. It will be a terrible indictment of this one if it does...
...Boston’s average temperature will rise dramatically, with as many as 30 days a year eclipsing the 95-degree mark. The consequences of this could be sweeping, according to the report, including storms of greater magnitude causing sewer flooding, sea-level increase, and even the flourishing of insect populations due to heat and humidity. Paul H. Kirshen, the Tufts professor who managed the project, said he and his team of researchers generated several graphics depicting Boston-area landmarks in the aftermath of a storm a century from now—one of which showed an inundated Square...
...Lemon, tangy and full of vitamin C," she promised, picking a squirming insect from the trunk of a tree fern. She might have been right?but luckily for the native ants and the tourists, drops of rain came streaming down through the canopy, sending the tangy fare scurrying for cover...
...results support the hypothesis that angiosperm forests and their associated insect herbivores expanded the range of ecological opportunities available to ants, leading to their diversification and dominance in almost all terrestrial ecosystems,” said Moreau...