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Environmentalists Sue to List Bumble Bee as Endangered
A bumble bee once common in the United States is disappearing so quickly it should be listed as an endangered species, environmentalists said in a lawsuit filed against U.S. government agencies on Tuesday.
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USDA expanding use of wasp to fight citrus greening in California
The fight against a disease threatening California citrus got a boost Tuesday when the U.S. Department of Agriculture said it would expand efforts to breed and release a tiny parasitic wasp, a natural enemy of a pest that spreads the incurable ailment.
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'Vicious' New Praying Mantis Discovered in Rwanda
On a cool and rainy night in a dense, mountainous forest in Rwanda, insect-surveying scientists discovered a new species of praying mantis, one whose wingless females are "vicious hunters" that prowl for prey as if they were marauding tigers.
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How to Treat Mosquito Bites
Here are some tips on how to treat mosquito bites to minimize discomfort and avoid infection. Keep in mind that the most irritating thing about a mosquito bite is the itchiness it causes...
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20 million bees swarm after truck overturns in Delaware; highway ramp shut
As many as 20 million swarming bees released after a tractor-trailer hauling them overturned Tuesday have shut down a highway ramp and kept investigators from getting near the vehicle, said Delaware State Police.
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GIFs: Truck Carrying Bees Overturns, Bees Swarm on I-95 On-Ramp | News | Philadelphia Magazine
A tractor trailer carrying up to 20 million bees overturned in Delaware on Tuesday. The driver has been cited for unsafe cargo.
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Fruit flies show mark of intelligence in thinking before they act, study suggests
Fruit flies 'think' before they act, a study suggests. Neuroscientists showed that fruit flies take longer to make more difficult decisions. In experiments asking fruit flies to distinguish between ever closer concentrations of an odor, the researchers found that the flies don't act instinctively or impulsively. Instead they appear to accumulate information before committing to a choice.
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Did scientists just solve the bee collapse mystery?
It's a hard-knock life, scouring the landscape for pollen to sustain a beehive. Alight upon the wrong field, and you might encounter fungicides, increasingly used on corn and soybean crops, and shown to harm honeybees at tiny levels.
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From chaos to order: How ants optimize food search
Ants are capable of complex problem-solving strategies that could be widely applied as optimization techniques. An individual ant searching for food walks in random ways. Yet the collective foraging behavior of ants goes well beyond that, a mathematical study reveals: The animal movements at a certain point change from chaos to order. This happens in a self-organized way. Understanding the ants could help analyze similar phenomena -- for instance how humans roam the Internet.
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This Is What a Baby Stick Bug Looks Like
Mostly like an itsy bitsy little stick, but with pluck
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Best Ways to Repel Insects
The war against mosquitoes is deadly serious business when it comes to infectious diseases like malaria and the West Nile virus. But mosquitoes and other biting insects are also perennial irritants at Memorial Day parties, backyard barbecues, and other summer celebrations. Here are some of the ways we use modern science and technology to get the little pests to bug off.
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Your Ant Farm Is Smarter Than Google
Ant colonies are surprisingly efficient at forming intelligent networks that can rapidly spread information, according to a new study.
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Light-colored butterflies and dragonflies thriving as European climate warms
Butterflies and dragonflies with lighter colors are out-competing darker-colored insects in the face of climate change. Scientists have shown that as the climate warms across Europe, communities of butterflies and dragonflies consist of more lighter coloured species. Darker coloured species are retreating northwards to cooler areas, but lighter coloured species are also moving their geographical range north as Europe gets warmer.
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11 tips on DIY home pest control
DIY home pest control is easy and inexpensive. Before you start spraying your home with toxic chemic
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Meet the sommelier of insect stings
A yellowjacket sting is "hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine W.C. Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue."
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Tree bumblebee: 'Record sightings' for invasive bee
Tree bumblebees first arrived from continental Europe about 13 years ago, but they have now been seen throughout England, Wales and southern Scotland.
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Newly discovered insect 'Supersonus' hits animal kingdom's highest-pitch love call
In the rainforests of South America, scientists have discovered a new genus and three new species of insect with the highest ultrasonic calling songs ever recorded in the animal kingdom. Katydids (or bushcrickets) are insects known for their acoustic communication, with the male producing sound by rubbing its wings together (stridulation) to attract distant females for mating.
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Malaysia swarmed by giant moths
Swarms of giant moths have descended on Malaysia, invading homes and even disrupting a national football match.
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You're Putting On Your Bug Spray All Wrong
'Tis the season for picnics, bonfires and camping, but along with the sunshine and fresh air come insects. Not only are they annoying and their bites often itchy, but many carry dangerous diseases.
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Fire Ant Raft Survival Secrets Discovered
In order to escape death by flooding, fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) will grab onto each other to form floating rafts, marvels of biological engineering that allow them to preserve their colony on the surface of the water for months. A team of engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology has analyzed the architecture of fire ant rafts in order to discover their survival secrets, and what the engineers have found may have ramifications for the design of robots.
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