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3D Insect Flight Footage Capured From Inside A Fly
Scientists from the UK and Switzerland have used very intense X-rays to film inside an insect's body as it flies.
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Male extinction prevented by promiscuous females
Female fruit flies with a large number of sexual partners are playing an invaluable role in preventing the extinction of males, research at the University of Liverpool has shown.Scientists have found that flies in the northern parts of the United States are more inclined to have multiple partners in order to reduce the occurrence of an X chromosome which causes the production of only female offspring.
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Dancing bees reveal why summer isn't the season of plenty
Summertime and the living is easy, we're told – but it's not so for the hungry honey bee, new research from the University of Sussex published this week reveals.
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The Joys And Ethics Of Insect Eating
A week ago today, I ate my first crickets. It was a first step into entomophagy, the practice of insect eating. I wrote about this topic here at 13.7 in January but had never before tried it myself (excluding accidental ingestion of the insect parts often found in peanut butter, chocolate, vegetables and other foods).
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Scientist finds the worst places to get stung by a bee, by testing on himself...
It started when a honeybee flew up Michael Smith’s shorts and stung him in the testicles. Smith is a graduate student at Cornell University, who studies the behaviour and evolution of honeybees. In...
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'More bee deaths' in northern Europe
The Commission wanted pesticide impacts to be included in the Epilobee study, but it was overruled by member states' governments.
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The Acrobatics of Fruit Fly Flight
Scientists examine fruit flies up close to figure out how they flee predators, and whether we can build similarly agile flying robots.
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Bee fossils provide rare glimpse into Ice Age environment
A new analysis of rare leafcutter-bee fossils excavated from the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits in Southern California has provided valuable insight into the local environment during the last Ice Age.
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Bolivian villagers use venomous ants to torture alleged thieves
Bolivian authorities say Amazon villagers nearly killed two men with venomous ants, tying them to a tree swarming with the insects for allegedly stealing three motorbikes. Dr Roberto Paz told reporters in Cochabamba on Monday that one of the men remained in intensive care while the other had required dialysis for kidney failure.
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Butterflies on the loose in Montreal
Every spring (late winter, actually), Montreal is invaded by the most unusual horde of tourists. What makes them unusual is that they have wings, for they are butterflies. What else makes them unusual is that Montreal is buried under several feet of snow when they arrive in February, not quite butterfly weather.
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Scientists discover the animal kingdom’s first ‘female penis’
Scientists have discovered four species of Brazilian insects in which the females possess a penis and the males possess a vagina. This announcement, made today in the journal Current Biology, represents the first documented instance of a "female penis" in the animal kingdom.
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Chikungunya, a highly infectious disease, may soon arrive in the U.S.
The mosquito-borne virus seems poised to join a handful of tropical diseases spreading across the southern United States.
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Spying on plant communication with tiny bugs
Internal communications in plants share striking similarities with those in animals, new research reveals. With the help of tiny insects, scientists were able to tap into this communication system. Their results reveal the importance of these communications in enabling plants to protect themselves from attack by insect pests.
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Bug workout
It did this for over three hours.
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Ants Swarm Like Brains Think
Deborah Gordon spent the morning of August 27 watching a group of harvester ants foraging for seeds outside the dusty town of Rodeo, N.M. Long before the first rays of sun hit the desert floor, a group of patroller ants was already on the move. Their task was to find out whether the area near the nest was free from flash floods, high winds, and predators. If they didn’t return to the nest, departing foragers would know it wasn’t safe to go search for food.
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Insects with world’s smallest 3D glasses could lead to robot breakthrough
According to a report from the UK’s Newcastle University, a new research program is geared toward understanding the sophisticated processes behind 3D vision in the praying mantis.
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The Deadliest Animal in the World
What would you say is the most dangerous animal on Earth? Sharks? Snakes? Humans? Of course the answer depends on how you define dangerous. Personally I’ve had a thing about sharks since the first time I saw Jaws. But if you’re judging by how many people are killed by an animal every year, then the answer isn’t any of the above. It’s mosquitoes.
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Spider Evolution Should Make You Even More Terrified Of Spiders
You probably only think of spiders as the horrible venomous arachnids that use two of their legs to pry open your eyelids so they can inject your eyeballs with venom while you're sleeping. Turns out? When you look at how they evolved to produce that venom they get even scarier.
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That Ant Farm Really Is A Farm
Ants mastered husbandry way before us — about 50 million years ago — and they still continue farming today.
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Recently-Discovered Wasp Species Named For Harry Potter Creature
If you are familiar with the Harry Potter series, you probably remember the dementors: dark, ghost-like beings that suck every positive feeling away leaving nothing but an empty shell. These awful creatures have now made the transition from fantasy to scientific literature, as they are now the namesake of a newly discovered species of cockroach wasp. The name Ampulex dementor was chosen through public voting
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