Replacing the queen with an insect bred for more docile traits will soon influence the entire hive because a single queen produces all the young for that colony.
The paragon of animals!" into the most disgusting insects bred in the most foul sewage.
What happened at Bear Stearns or at Goldman Sachs affected the mosquito levels in Riverside County, California (the insects breed with special fecundity in abandoned swimming pools).
In "Mimic" (1997), for example, genetically engineered insects breed in the New York subway system, creating "eco-horror of our own making," Mr. Ridler said.
"This is the C.D.C.'s reference library," Beard says, a bestiary of various insects bred precisely to reflect even such things as differing pesticide resistance levels from around the world.
'These grass margins are good for wildlife,' he explains, 'as well as keeping weeds at bay.' The bigger fields are split up with 'beetle banks', low bumps or hedges where predatory insects breed and nest, later feeding on aphids and other harmful bugs.
The team then let the insects breed for 10 generations.
Also known as "super termites", these insects breed incredibly fast.
As environmental scientist Hong Liu of Beihang University in Beijing and colleagues explained online 24 December in Advances in Space Research, the insects breed quickly, require little space and water, and generate only small amounts of excrement, which could serve as fertilizer.
