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<title>BUniverse: Videos tagged insects </title>
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<title>Invasive Species and Future Ecologies: Bugs, Viruses, Mussels, and Weeds</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:38:45 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[â€˜Invasive Species and Future Ecologies: Bugs, Viruses, Mussels, and Weeds," part of the â€˜Pardee House Seminarsâ€™ series, featured Professor Les Kaufman of the BU Marine Program and Conservation International as well as Professor Richard Pollack and Professor Richard Primack both of the BU Department of Biology. The seminar was moderated by Pardee Center Director, Professor James McCann.

The event included discussions of the implications of the Nile Perch in Lake Victoria, insects and the diseases they bring with them and the study of the impact of climate change on the flowering times of plants and the spring arrival of birds. 

Hosted by The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on October 18, 2011.]]></description>
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<title>At Bug Club, Students Share a Love for Insects</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2024 11:09:41 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Turning over a rock and seeing a swarm of insects would typically lead most folks to run away. But for the 40 members of the Boston University Bug Club, it’s a chance to lean in, educate oneself, and share an experience with other entomology enthusiasts.]]></description>
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<title>What Can the Dung Beetle Teach Us About Nutrition?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 10:57:11 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists know it as Onthophagus—a type of horned scarab beetle found in just about every part of the world. But you probably know it for what it eats: poop. Whatever else dung beetles are good for—they are super strong, unparalleled navigators, and important plant seed spreaders—they just can’t shake the rep they get for their dietary choices.

In her Boston University lab, biologist Sofía Casasa has trays full of Onthophagus and fridges stocked with their favorite food—cow dung collected from a farm in Lincoln, Mass. An expert in evolutionary developmental biology, she’s studying the insects for clues to how organisms develop and grow. Casasa’s goal is to understand how much of an organism’s appearance—its size, shape, and structure, or morphology—is dictated by its genes, and how much by its environment, particularly what it eats.

With the dung beetles, she’s starting with one question: why do some beetles grow longer horns than others?]]></description>
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