professor of entomology at the University of Florida, published their findings in the Journal of Insect Biodiversity. Sartore's lesser rhino beetle is dark reddish brown and measures 14.7 ...

University of Florida researchers are studying how the spread of the invaders and the disappearance of the brown anole, an easy target for mosquitoes, might shift the blood-sucking insects to ...

This particular beetle species spreads a disease believed to have originated in Asia that can quickly kill trees and devastate an entire avocado grove. The Florida avocado industry has employed a ...

Melissa Miller, an invasion ecologist at the University of Florida, said brown anoles “may unwittingly ... then used DNA analysis to show which animals the insects had feasted on.