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More than 13,500 hectares in Michoacan were certified to export mango A total of 13,583 hectares of mango in Michoacan were certified for the 2021 export season. According to Rubén Medina Niño, head of the Secretariat of Rural Development and Agrifood (Sedrua), this state expects to export more than 84,000 tons of mango this year, surpassing the 80,000 tons it exported last year. In 2020, the mangoes from Michoacán reached 17 countries in the world. The main destination was the United States, but the state also sent its mangoes to Canada, Japan, Spain, France, and the Netherlands, among ot...

Figure 1: Fruit flies have been used as model animals in many studies. Up until now, researchers have handled and counted them manually, but an automated...

Neonicotinoids, the most commonly used pesticides in the world, were banned in the EU in 2018. More than 99,000 people petitioned the UK government to support the ban amid a wealth of scientific evidence linking this group of chemicals to poor health in bees, from the reduced production of bumblebee queens to slashed sperm counts among male honeybees. The UK government had pledged to keep the EU’s restrictions post-Brexit, but recently granted a special exemption to allow farmers to use the neonicotinoid thiamethoxam on sugarbeet throughout 2021, and possibly until 2023. If this signals the...

Fruit flies evolve in response to environment Updated: Updated: Males modulate their reproductive investment based on perceived competition Share Article AAA Shaped by competition: Evolved traits enabled the fruit flies to maintain fitness in adverse conditions.   | Photo Credit: Vijaya Anand Males modulate their reproductive investment based on perceived competition A study of fruit flies bred in the lab shows that they may actually evolve to modulate their reproductive traits based on the extent of competitiveness of their competing males. This study of 150 generations of fruit flies, sp...

Figure 1: The life cycle of the common fruit fly. As larvae (bottom right) approach the pupal stage (bottom left), they undergo major shifts in...