TY - JOUR
AU - Morey, Amy
AB - NEWS BITES AND NOTABLE FINDINGS Special thanks to Greg Dahlem, who provided American Entomologist’s Research Briefs RESEARCH BRIEFS content since 2003. Thank you for 20 years of service! We look forward to announcing our next Research Briefs editor in an upcoming issue. by Matt Hudson and Amy Morey Myrmecological Milk? Ant pupae have been shown to extrude a highly nutritious and hormone-laden secretion, not unlike mammalian milk. The authors who made this discovery speculate that this fluid, common across many ant species, might have played a role in the evolution of ant eusociality. Adults were observed removing and consuming the secretion, and when the adults were prevented from removing the fluid, the pupae devel- oped fungal infections and died. Likewise, when larvae were deprived of access to this secretion, they experienced stunted growth. Snir, O., H. Alwaseem, S. Heissel, A. Sharma, S. Valdés-Rodríguez, T.S. Carroll, C.S. Jiang, J. Razzauti, and D.J.C. Kronauer. 2022. The pupal moulting fluid has evolved social functions in ants. Nature 612: 488–494. https://doi.org/10.1038/ s41586-022-05480-9 ADOBE STOCK Revisiting Fall Armyworm Host Species The invasive fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith), “Honey bee has been known to attack a wide variety of agricultural crops. After seeing field evidence that 
TI - Enterest
JO - American Entomologist
DO - 10.1093/ae/tmad007
DA - 2023-03-11
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/enterest-36rjztlQtK
SP - 4
EP - 9
VL - 69
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -