D. began to make news, and Lipkin had no idea what the entomologist was talking about.
Many methods of ridding them aren't pleasant, says University of Hawaii entomologist Arnold H.
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Nicholas Bull, an entomologist at Flinders University of South Australia, found himself wondering why.
"Monarchs are considered to be a flagship species for conservation, " said Cornell entomologist Linda Rayor, an associate on the study.
These insects are about a quarter-inch long and eat at night, said Howard Russell, entomologist with diagnostic services at Michigan State University.
Last December, Lipkin received an e-mail from an entomologist at Penn State.
Mr. SCOTT SAWLIS (Entomologist, Dallas County): They come out in very large numbers, a quick hatch of large, almost of biblical proportion-type mosquitoes.
But according to Gene Kritsky, an entomologist at the College of Mount St Joseph, in Cincinnati, Ohio, natural selection is working against this resonance too.
In Pembrokeshire, entomologist Sarah Beynon will be delving into dung and taking a closer look at cow pats to study the fascinating mating behaviour of dung flies.
That might indicate the infestation is isolated, but federal officials are hesitant to endorse quarantines in areas smaller than a county, said Nate Seigert, a U.S. Forest Service entomologist.
Matt Buffington, a research entomologist at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), says the stink bugs arrived in the US sometime between the late 1990s and 2003 to find an "enemy-free space".
There were fewer apple losses in 2011 because farmers better anticipated the bugs' arrival and doused their crops with pesticides used on moths, says Tracy Leskey, the USDA entomologist leading the government's research effort.
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Last year Joe Munyaneza, an entomologist at the Yakima Agricultural Research Laboratory in Washington state, found that tubers from plants exposed to these insects showed typical zebra-chip symptoms, while those from unexposed plants had none.
NPR's Melissa Block talks with Nathan Erwin, an entomologist at the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History and Scott Harvey, an acoustical consultant with the company Polysonics, who has measured the noise levels of the cicada ruckus.
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