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 …
gerald wilkinson and his colleagues at the University of Maryland, usa, have discovered that the female-to-male ratio of the Cyrtodiopsis whitei flies is 2:1, contrary to the fact that the x and y chromosomes, responsible for deciding the sex of progeny, are equal in number. This means that there is …
researchers have recently discovered 92-million-year old fossilised ants. With this discovery, it has become clear that these omnipresent insects have been on the Earth for more than twice as long as what was previously thought. Entomologists at the American Museum of Natural History in New York found the ants in …
The Union environment and forest ministry has issued a notification to constitute a special body to assess the loss to the forest wealth of the Madhya Pradesh (MP) due to the recent sal borer attacks, termed as the sal borer epidemic. The members of this body, apart from estimating the …
in the dense forest of Amarkantak, district Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh (mp) , where the river Narmada originates, the gurgle of the stream was difficult to hear amidst the monotonous sound of axes falling on giant sal trees (Shorea robusta). But for the timely intervention of Saifuddin Soz, Union minister of …
The white-bearded, wiry Baiga tribal of Chada village in Mandla is a sad man. " Dukh to hota hai, per kuch kar bhi nahi sakte " (It hurts, but we cannot do anything about it), he says helplessly. Baigas, the second largest tribe in the state, live in the hills …
segmentation and varying levels of similarity or difference between the segments are the basic characteristics of the insect body structure. For instance, a typical fly has a head, three thoracic segments and eight to nine abdominal segments. Each thoracic segment carries a pair of legs; the last two carry a …
Slow stinks of incompetence. But is the rapid tree felling by the forest department in Madhya Pradesh (mp) the answer to sal borer crisis gripping the state? The forest administration, has long been accused of incompetence by environmentalists and ngos alike. One of the measures forest bureaucrats espouse is policing …
A tiny "hazardous' insect, weevil, considered a major threat to horticulture and floriculture sectors, is being successfully used to clear the weeds from Harke reserve lake in Amritsar. Ram Kishan, director of the Irrigation and Power Research Institute (IPRI), Amritsar, says that the insects do no allow the water hyacinth …
biological pesticides offer a more sound means of controlling insect pests than synthetic chemicals. A bacterium called Bacillus thuringiensis ( b t) produces a crystalline protein that is highly toxic to moth larvae. At a time, when nearly 500 species of arthropods have evolved insecticide resistance to other pesticides, there …
poaching of spiders, reptiles and other rare insects has spurted into national parks of the southwestern us , as these species attract high value in the overseas markets. traffic , a division of the World Wide Fund for Nature ( wwf ) that tracks the impact of poaching around the …
unscrupulous poaching and smuggling have now virtually rendered extinct rare and beautiful butterflies endemic to the forests of Kerala. Officials of traffic -India, an association working for the prevention of wildlife transaction, recently took note of heavy poaching in the state. The motive behind this largescale
RECENT research on a genetic mutation in Drosophila melanogaster, commonly known as vinegar fly or fruit fly, has thrown new light on its effect on sexual orientation. This mutation, initially discovered more than 30 years ago, was found to convert normal heterosexual males into bisexuals. These males courted both males …
SCIENTISTS have successfully tested a biological pesticide for the first time on grasshoppers and locusts which ravage crops across Africa. They have developed sprays containing fungal spores which are as effective as synthetic pesticides and harmless for beneficial insects. Researchers from Benin, Niger and Britain spent the past seven years …
THE long-standing enmity between Cuba and the us has taken a bizarre turn with Cuba accusing the us government at the UN of waging a "biological attack" against it by introducing a plague of tiny, juice-sucking bugs that are now reportedly wreaking havoc on crops in three of its provinces. …
A POLITICAL, moral and biological debate has been raging in the US about the fate of the endangered flower-loving fly found in the dunes of Delhi sands in Colton, California. Saving the fly would effectively mean halting progress, loss of money and jobs. The fast shrinking habitat of the fly …
Laws of physics explaining the mechanism that keeps an aircraft airborne fail to do so for insects. Reason: insect's wings, unlike an aircraft's, have a highly unsteady motion that cannot be explained by conventional laws of motion. They change direction and speed at a phenomenal rate. Charles P Ellington, a …
The peppered moth has typically white-coloured wings, finely speckled with black. But in the first half of the 19th century, virtually all peppered moths had entirely black wings
in what experts are calling the first direct biological consequence of global warming, a delicate species of butterflies is being driven north through California to escape rising temperatures, Santa Barbara, a researcher at the University of California has found. Known as Edith's checkerspot butterfly, the insect is prized by collectors …
