Kangas joined Nightly Business Report in 1979; in 2003, his Stocks in the News segment earned a Financial Writers and Editors Award from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. In 2005, he won a Suncoast Chapter Silver Circle Award.
What Is a Malpighian Tubule? Malpighian tubules are organs within insects that excrete solid waste. Larvae of certain species of beetles use Malpighian tubules to produce silk.
During the larval stage, the Japanese beetle lives in lawns and other grasslands, where it eats the roots of grasses. During that stage, it is susceptible to a fatal disease called milky spore disease, caused by a bacterium called milky spore, Paenibacillus (formerly Bacillus) popilliae.