February 2018

Checkered beetle on a Venus flytrap blossom. Photo credit: Elsa Youngsteadt. Click to enlarge.

Feb 6, 2018

Venus Flytraps Don’t Eat The Insects That Pollinate Them

Researchers discover which insects pollinate Venus flytraps – and learn that flytraps don’t dine on them.

A female German cockroach. A new paper compares cockroach and termite genomes to find clues to the evolution of sociality. Photo courtesy of Matt Bertone.

Feb 5, 2018

How Solitary Cockroaches Gave Rise to Social Termites: Tales from Two Genomes

Termites are “social cockroaches.” NC State researchers examine the genomes of both termites and cockroaches to find clues about how this evolution occurred.