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Green Lynx Spider
A beautiful web of the green lynx spider with with the morning dew,by Balon Vinod
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Male Black Widow Spiders “Twerk” to Avoid Being Eaten by Females
Forget Miley Cyrus: When it comes to twerking, spiders can save their lives by shaking their booties, a new study says. Scientists have found that male black widows move their bodies in a certain way to let females know of their presence—and avoid becoming their next meal. (Also see “Surprise! Male Spiders Eat Females, Too.”)
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Bees Are Building Nests with Our Waste Plastic
If you picture a bee nest (yes, bees build nests), you probably think of a natural haven of leafy comfort. Normally, you’d be right, but biologists studying two types of bee recently found that the insects have moved with the times: They’re now incorporating plastic in their designs.
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Panda ant from Chile
The Mutillidae are a family of more than 3,000 species of wasps (despite the names) whose wingless females resemble large, hairy ants. Black and white specimens like this one are sometimes known as panda ants due to their hair coloration resembling that of the Chinese giant panda. Their bright colours serve as aposematic signals. They are known for their extremely painful stings.
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Rise Of The Insect Drones
Nature spent millions of years perfecting flapping-wing flight. Now engineers can reproduce it with machines.
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Suspicious Virus Makes Rare Cross-Kingdom Leap From Plants to Honeybees
When HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans sometime in the early 1900s, it crossed a gulf spanning several million years of evolution. But tobacco ringspot virus, scientists announced last week, has made a jump that defies credulity. It has crossed a yawning chasm ~1.6 billion years wide.
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Geek Answers: Would it really be so bad if we killed all the mosquitoes?
It’s odd to imagine in our modern age of conservation and green innovation, but might an evolved, compassionate human race still end up engaging in the cold, methodical extermination of a species? Many say that is precisely what we should do in the case of the mosquito: wipe them out as a whole, erase them from the face of the Earth.
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Casting a Fire Ant Colony with Molten Aluminium
An amazing sculpture is made by pouring molten aluminum into a fire ant colony. The resulting cast is huge, weighing 17.9 lbs. and reaching a depth of 18 inches.
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Nazis 'researched war mosquitoes'
German scientists at Dachau concentration camp researched the possible use of malaria-infected mosquitoes as weapons during World War Two, a researcher has claimed.
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Dew on a dragonfly
Dragonflies are important predators that eat mosquitoes, and other small insects like flies, bees, ants, wasps, and very rarely butterflies. They are usually found around marshes, lakes, ponds, streams, and wetlands because their larvae, known as "nymphs", are aquatic. Some 5680 different species of dragonflies (Odonata) are known in the world today.
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Tarantula Venom Could Lead to New Effective Painkillers
Using an innovative screening method, a team of scientists from Australia and the United States has discovered a peptide in the venom of the Peruvian green velvet tarantula (Thrixopelma pruriens) that blunts activity in pain-transmitting neurons.
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Ants Build Raft to Escape Flood, Protect Queen
Resourceful ants know what to do during a flood: They build a raft and stick the queen right in the middle of it.
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New threat to Brazil's breadbasket: a pesky caterpillar
Brazilian farmers are battling a voracious caterpillar that likely arrived from Asia, challenging the agricultural superpower's widely touted mastery of tropical farming
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How Bees Harvest Plastic Waste for Building Materials
In a study published in the journal Ecosphere, a team at the University of Guelph in Ontario discovered bees making their homes out of bits of plastic waste...
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The benefits of eating bugs
You've probably heard of the Stone Age diet craze known as the Paleolithic Diet, made popular most recently by Dr. Loren Cordain's best-seller The Paleo Diet. The premise is simple: If our early human ancestors couldn't have eaten it, we shouldn't, either. It's the one time, it seems, that being like a caveman is a good thing.
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Pelican spiders: slow, safe assassins
Spiders, thank goodness, haven’t evolved assassin drones. But the specialized hunters of the family Archaeidae can kill at a distance.
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Understanding how fireflies evolved their glow
With life's spectacular diversity, it's easy to look at some of its more baroque features and wonder "how could that have possibly evolved?" When researchers look at the actual molecular details, however, there are often rather mundane answers to that question.
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Researchers are hopeful this new beetle will save the Hemlocks in the Southeast
A beetle the size of a single grain of rice is the latest best hope for hemlocks in the Southeast that have been felled by the millions by an invasive bug.
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A new website, bumblebeewatch.org, lets you track sightings of bumblebees and is part of a larger effort to protect the insects.
The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and its partners have launched the Bumble Bee Watch website to track sightings. When you see a bee bumbling around, snap a photo.
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Bugs Have Already Evolved Immunity to GMO Corn
Well that certainly didn't take very long. According to a study published Monday, the Western Corn Rootworm (actually a beetle larvae) has already developed a resistance to not one but two strains of generically modified corn thanks to the over-reliance and improper implementation of the crops by farmers in Iowa.
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