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Exotic Fruit Fly Three in One Insect
Every so often nature provides something that is stunning in its simplicity. It can also amaze with an almost perfect replication of reality. There is an exotic fruit fly called “Goniurellia tridens” which has been referred to as a 3-in-1 insect. This fruit fly has relied on some pretty spectacular wing art to protect itself from predators.
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This amazing fruit fly evolved to have pictures of ants on its wings
This is unbelievable, but the fruit fly G tridens has somehow evolved to have what looks like pictures of ants on its wings. Seriously, its transparent wings have an ant design on them complete with "six legs, two antennae, a head, thorax and tapered abdomen." It's nature's evolutionary art painted on a fly's wings.
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Spread of Asian Stink Bug Threatens US Crops
A smelly invasive bug continues to spread across the United States, alarming both farmers and scientists. The name of this insect is a mouthful: the brown marmorated stink bug. Native to East Asia...
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How to Get Rid of Fruit Flies – 10 Tips for Getting Rid of Fruit Flies
Are you waging a fruitless battle against fruit flies in your home (pun intended)? Try following these 10 tips for getting rid of fruit flies. Pic by Mike Zacchino | mzacchino@oregonian.com
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Sex-starved fruit flies live shorter, more stressful lives
Sexual frustration impairs the health of fruit flies and causes premature death, according to new research. Scientists found that male flies who were stimulated to mate but prevented from doing so, had their lives cut short by up to 40%. Those allowed to copulate not only lived longer but suffered less stress.
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Spider Silk: The Super Material of the Future (Infographic)
Spider silk is super strong.
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A Red-Eyed tree frog riding a Hercules Beetle
A Red-Eyed tree frog riding a Hercules Beetle
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How Mosquitoes Are Drawn to Human Skin and Breath
UC Riverside researchers identify affordable, safe and pleasant-smelling compounds that can help control spread of mosquito-borne diseases.
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This Fly Hijacks an Ant's Brain — Then Pops Its Head Off
The ant-decapitating fly burrows into ants, mind-controls them, and eventually severs their heads from the inside.
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There’s a Reason They Call Them ‘Crazy Ants’
What if you discovered an invasive species that seems drawn to electricity — in your outlets, appliances, laptops and TVs — and no one would listen?
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Can Bees Be Trained to Sniff Out Cancer?
Some insects, such as bees, have a sense of smell so acutely sensitive that they can locate the faintest of odors in a room, even if it consists of only a few molecules. But scientists are particularly intrigued by the fact that these bugs can even be taught to detect various chemicals, from methamphetamines to ingredients in explosives. They’ve even been shown to effectively diagnose diseases like tuberculosis and diabetes.
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Praying mantis on a plantcycle
Exercise is important...
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Bugs That Live Under Your Skin and Other Creepy Discoveries This Year
Several of these stories elaborate on the rather stomach-churning theme of scientists growing parasitic organisms... in their own bodies. Right. So, to that end, please don’t miss this discussion of the botfly, which - though not a new discovery - is probably among the foulest of Earth’s creatures.
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A new suspect in bee deaths: the US government
As scientists race to pinpoint the cause of the global collapse of honey bee populations that pollinate a third of the world’s crops, environmental groups have indentified one culprit: US authorities who continue to approve pesticides implicated in the apian apocalypse. Case in point: The US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) conditional approval in May of...
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The Physics of Ants
They can flow like a liquid and bounce back like a solid. Masses of fire ants show a duality that intrigues physicists.
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Real-life smoking caterpillar uses nicotine as defense
Ripped from the pages of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, scientists have discovered a smoking caterpillar of sorts
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Meet the Enemy of Killer Fungus that Turns Ants into Zombies
This fame might make it seem there is just one fungus that can create such a nightmare. But in fact there are many species of them, and zombifying ants is not their only speciality.
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Engrossingly Gross Photos of Spiders and Insects Eating Each Other
These are some of the most detailed and disturbing bug-meal photos you might ever see.
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Nothomyrmecia: that handsome ant in your sidebar
Those of you who haven’t got an ad blocker installed have probably seen this ant floating about in a promotional banner in the ScienceBlogs sidebar: I can’t speak for how others react to this image. Most, I imagine, filter it out as yet more clutter on the screen. But for a picture of an insect…
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Why Is This Bee Wearing a Sensor?
Also, how did scientists get that sensor onto the bee in the first place?
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