Article categories : "Entomology"

• Entomology

Published the 24/10/2020

Desert Locusts, a strong marker of the consequences of human activity and global warming

Let’s start with this shock photograph taken from National Geographic last March.This photo, taken by Ben Curtis, perfectly illustrates the magnitude of the disaster. We can see hundreds of millions of locusts devastating East African cultures.In March 2020, there were 7 affected East African cou [...]

• Entomology

Published the 24/10/2020

The art of communication for our bees

There are currently around 20,000 species of bees. Among them are the species of the genus Apis, which produce the honey that we consume. Bees are eusocial insects, that they are individuals of the same species living together but organized in different castes. In honeybees (Apis mellifera), th [...]

• Entomology

5 min

Published the 24/10/2020

Exploring biodiversity. Ants that explode!

Exploration expeditions continue to take place today, and these result in the discovery of many insects each year. Here, we will focus on a species, Colobopsis explodens, or the explosive ant. It was described by researcher Alice Laciny and her collaborators in 2018. This species, observable in [...]

• Entomology

3 min

Published the 24/10/2020

Insects of the dead returns

We saw in the previous article Insects of the Dead that the family of Diptera occupied an important and well-known place in the process of dating deceased persons. Diptera are scavengers, that is, they feed on corpses. In the etymological sense of the term, Diptera in Greek corresponds to Di for two [...]

• Entomology

4 min

Published the 23/10/2020

Insects of the dead

Legal entomology… Who, these days, does not immediately think of the CSI : MIAMI serie when hearing this term? However, the study of insects associated with death is much older and recurrent in different civilizations. The oldest known representations of flies have been obser [...]