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Absurd Creature of the Week: If This Wasp Stings You, ‘Just Lie Down and Start Screaming’
The tarantula hawk is actually a kind of solitary wasp, with a sting that causes a fiercely electric pain that could only be described as totally unacceptable.
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Forensic Entomology is More than Just Blow Flies and Beetles
Fans of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and similar TV shows know that forensic entomology involves the use of insects and other arthropods in legal matters, including homicide cases.
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The Zombie Bees Are Here
Across the country, honeybees infected with a parasitic fly are behaving strangely.
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Inside the World of Fire Ants!
A song of ants and fire… and ant-decapitating flies
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Watch a Wasp Take Control of a Cockroach’s Brain
A video captures the dark side of insect mind control. By Katherine Harmon Courage.
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Hints of tool use, culture seen in bumble bees
String-pulling skills readily spread among bumble bees, despite their small brains. By Elizabeth Pennisi.
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Ants on Stilts Help Show Bugs Have "Pedometers"
Stilt-walking and half-amputated ants helped scientists solve the mystery of how the insects return straight home, even after extremely twisty trips.
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For insect detectives, the trickiest cases involve the bugs that aren't there
Gale Ridge could tell something was wrong as soon as the man walked into her office at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. He was smartly dressed in a collared shirt and slacks, but his skin didn’t look right: It was bright pink, almost purple — and weirdly glassy. Without making eye contact, he sat hunched in the chair across from Ridge and began to speak. He was an internationally renowned physician and researcher. He had taught 20 years’ worth of students, treating patients all the while, and had solved mysteries about the body’s...
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Gruesome Wasp Named After Shape-Shifting 'Star Trek' Character
A group of wasps with a gruesome lifestyle has just gained 15 new members. Like their kin, the newbies make a habit of laying their eggs in developing insects.
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This Weird AF Hercules Beetle Pupa Is Our New Favourite Alien Baby
Just when we thought we'd seen it all, the internet dishes up a fat, red alien baby that looks like it's been ripped from the scorching sand dunes of Venus (we wish). In reality, it's just a Hercules beetle in its pupa form, enshrined in a chrysalis as it prepares to take on its adult form. But let's not talk it down too much - this writhing cocoon is about to become one of the largest insects on Earth.
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Where have all the insects gone?
Surveys in German nature reserves point to a dramatic decline in insect biomass. By Gretchen Vogel.
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The giant bugs on the sidewalks are cicadas that rose from the dead 4 years too early
A small fraction of the 17-year cicadas — the ones we’re supposed to see in 2021 — are creeping out of their zombie caskets this week. By Kevin Ambrose. (May 17, 2017)
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A terrifying threat from Tropical Storm Cindy: Floating masses of deadly fire ants
The notoriously tough insects are just as dangerous when they're wet as they are dry, according to Alabama officials.
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Insects: are they the best pesticides?
Ecologists around the world are advocating pesticide-free farming by using insects. But this environmentally friendly method is still in the early stages.
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'Paramedic ants' observed treating injured comrades
The social insects have been seen cleaning wounds and possibly administering antibiotics to prevent infection
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Attenborough and the Empire of the Ants
David Attenborough is in the Swiss Jura Mountains to discover the secrets of a giant. Beneath his feet lies a vast network of tunnels and chambers, home to a huge empire of ants. It is believed to be one of the largest animal societies in the world, where over a billion ants from rival colonies live in peace. Their harmonious existence breaks many of the rules for both ants and evolution, and raises some important questions. Through winter, spring and into summer, David turns detective to find the answers.
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Australian native cockroaches aren’t as gross as you think
Don’t let the cockroach that feeds on your forgotten leftovers stop you from appreciating these native beauties.
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Ant parasite turns host into ripe red berry, biologists discover
Ant parasite turns host into ripe red berry, biologists discover
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Baffling Viral Video Shows Ants Carrying Flowers to a Dead Bee
It looks like something out of a sad fairy tale. Tiny ants are pulling over petals, making a pile, and on top rests a dead bumblebee. By Jacinta Bowler.
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How Insulin Helped Create Ant Societies
Ants, wasps, bees, and other social insects live in highly organized “eusocial” colonies where throngs of females forgo reproduction—usually viewed as the cornerstone of evolutionary fitness—to serve the needs of a few egg-laying queens and their offspring. How they got that way has been hard to explain despite more than 150 years of biologists’ efforts. Many researchers have thought the answer would come down to a complex suite of genetic changes that evolved in species-specific ways over a long time.
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