About 230 million several years back a Silesaurus opolensis was hungry. The close dinosaur relative, which stood as tall as a Great Dane and had a meter-prolonged tail, foraged for foodstuff in the swampy vegetation of what is now southwestern Poland. Then, like all vertebrates, the reptile pooped out what […]
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A 3D study of a tiny beetle that attacks the fruits of coffee reveals details of its anatomy and secret life that can help fight this pest
Scientists from the College of Granada (UGR), belonging to the Department of Zoology, have delivered new facts on Hypothenemus hampei, a very small beetle of just over a millimeter in measurement that is recognised as ‘the coffee berry borer’, mainly because it attacks coffee berries digging tunnels with cameras in […]