For the second blog post, the article title is “Defoliation-induced changes in foliage quality may trigger broad-scale insect outbreaks”.

I would categorize this article as academic peer-reviewed research material. According to this classification, the paper has been through a peer review process, which is a common practice for guaranteeing the caliber and reliability of scientific research before publishing in scholarly publications. It is written by experts, includes in-text citations, contains a bibliography, it has a methods and results section.

Reference

De Grandpré, L., Marchand, M., Kneeshaw, D. D., Paré, D., Boucher, D., Bourassa, S., Gervais, D., Simard, M., Griffin, J. M., & Pureswaran, D. S. (2022). Defoliation-induced changes in foliage quality may trigger broad-scale insect outbreaks. Communications biology, 5(1), 463. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03407-8