Bean Beetle Colonies (IMAGE)

Rice University

Bean Beetle Colonies

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Colonies of bean beetles inhabited an array of petri dishes with tunnels between them in an experiment at Rice University. The beetles were free to venture forward through many generations, with the goal of demonstrating that rapid evolution of a species can cause biological invasions to spread faster and with more variability.

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Jeff Fitlow/Rice University

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