Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of HC Singla Vs State of Punjab dated 31/10/2022. The matter is related to biological pollution by the Susri insect. This pollution is being caused due to decaying grains, due to negligence in storage arrangements of grains by Food Corporation of …
scientists have recently made a drastic downward revision of the number of insect species they believe the Earth contains. Instead of about 30-million-plus species previously estimated, the researchers say there are probably no more than four to six million insect groups. The new estimate stems from a six-year comprehensive study …
Thenmala in Kollam district of Kerala will have the first national butterfly park. The project of the park will be implemented by the Kerala Forest Research Institute and the ecotourism department. The park will be established in 1.21 hectares of land adjacent to the office building of the Kallada Irrigation …
Insect Discovery An insect never heard before, has been seen. Researchers have identified a new order of insects in Namibia. With this discovery the total number of insect orders have come to 31. Scientists have named this predatory insect Mantophasmatodea, an animal originally found in a 45-million year old piece …
According to Worldwide Fund for Nature (wwf), the wiping out of millions of monarch butterflies in central Mexico in January 2002 may affect their migrations next year. "Most probably the population will fall,' wwf Mexico director Juan Bezaury Creel said. "This is not about the extinction of the species, although …
A Rs 2-million project to develop an environment-friendly sprayer to combat insecticides in cotton crops has been launched by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST). Under the project, an adjustable height boom sprayer for cotton crop will be manufactured by the Pakistan Science Foundation. The execution, operation and maintenance …
according to recent reports, the mountain pine beetle epidemic in Canada threatens around us $3.81 billion in lumber in British Columbia's forests. Eight million hectares of lodgepole pine trees are being infested and killed by the beetle, thanks to four years of warm winters in British Columbia, Canada's largest lumber …
a new research could offer vital clues in combating attacks by herbivorous insects. According to a research done by chemical ecologists at the New York-based Cornell University, the chemical compounds of flowers not only guide pollinating insects but also prevent herbivorous insects from eating the reproductive parts of plants. According …
the Himalayan state of Sikkim is a paradise for nature lovers. It is also thronged by those who want to exploit the area's biodiversity for financial gains. Two Russians were arrested on July 30, 2001, for illegally collecting insects in large quantity from the remote Yuksam forest of the Kanchenjunga …
researchers in Sweden have linked the increase in the incidence of tick-borne encephalitis in Stockholm County to the global warming. The viral pathogen lives inside an insect, Ixodes ricinus and is transmitted to human beings when the insect bites them. The disease is characterised by symptoms such as high body …
tiny silverleaf whiteflies are resisting the latest crop of pesticides in fields of melons and peppers in the lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, us . Tong-Xian Liu, researcher at the Texas a&m; University, in the us , and his assistants, searching for signs of the tiny silverleaf whiteflies say there …
desert ants ( Cataglyphis fortis ), renowned for their ability to perform large-scale foraging excursions and then return to the nest by path integration, do so by integrating courses steered and the distances travelled into a continually updated mapping method. Whereas the angular orientation is based on cues taken from …
To gain control over protected forestlandloggers may have deliberately wiped out some 22 million monarch butterflies. The butterflies migrate annually from Canada to Mexico during the winter. Homero Aridjishead of Group of 100an environmental lobby based in the usclaims that loggers had sprayed pesticides on the orange and black-coloured butterflies …
Argentine ants are making the US their home. Biologists of the University of California in San Diego ( uscd ) have discovered the biggest colony of ants
Pollen grains of genetically modified corn (Bt Corn), are proving to be fatal for the larvae of monarch butterflies ( Danaus plexippus ). According to a latest study conducted by John Obrycki of the Iowa State University, monarch butterflies die when they eat the corn pollen, which contains bacterial toxins. …
A recent study has revealed that at least 44 per cent of the original forest of Mexico has disappeared, since 1971, due to logging and farming. These include the forests in protected areas. At this rate, all the original forests would be gone in less than 50 years. Even where …
The number of wild and domesticated bees in the us has dropped considerably in recent years. In some parts of the country, nearly 90 per cent of the bees are estimated to have disappeared. "The biggest reason behind the decline is a bee-killing parasite, known as the varroa mite, which …
after affecting over one-sixth of the total sal ( Shorea robusta ) forests in Madya Pradesh in 1997, the sal borer is back with a vengeance. According to media reports, at least three million sal trees are affected in Bihar, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh. Climatic changes like …
