(Beyond Pesticides, July 31, 2014) Scientific researchers on opposite sides of the globe are coming to the same startling conclusion concerning very different species: what was once abundant is no ...

UCC researchers have found that a common creature in Irish streams is munching on microplastics and producing even smaller nanoplastics. While the effects of microscopic particles of plastic in the ...

A species of small crustacean is able to break down microplastics into tiny particles in just a matter of days – much faster than previously estimated, scientists have said. Until now, the breakdown ...

Protected natural areas of the UK are struggling to halt declines in insects and spiders that have occurred over the past 30 years, according to a new study led by researchers from the UK Centre for ...

In this outdoor activity, your class will go on a bug hunt and become zoologists. They will come up with their own classification systems to sort common invertebrates into groups. This activity can be ...

Our earliest invertebrate ancestors did not have brains. Yet, over hundreds of millions of years, we and other vertebrates have developed amazingly complicated mental machinery. "It must have ...

Figure 1: Evolution of the virulence gene pool. Figure 3: Pathogenicity islands encode both insect and mammalian virulence factors. A common requirement of all bacterial pathogens is the need to avoid ...