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6,812 results for: Insects

  1. Animals

    Giant hornets have been sighted in Europe for the first time

    Four southern giant hornets have turned up in Spain. Similar stingers, known for honeybee attacks, had the Pacific Northwest on edge a few years ago.

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  2. Animals

    American burying beetles are making a comeback in Nebraska

    Thanks to decades of conservation to restore private grasslands, numbers of the threatened insect are on the rise in the Loess Canyons.

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  3. Animals

    Bees flying near cars are dying by the millions, a roadkill study suggests

    Scientists in Utah put sticky traps on car bumpers to tally how many bees get hit on a typical trip. The broader toll is immense, they estimate.

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  4. Life

    The butts of these blowfly larvae mimic termite faces

    The young of a mysterious blowfly species look — and smell — like the termites they hide among.

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  5. Animals

    The screams of thirsty plants may prompt some moths to lay eggs elsewhere

    Female moths may pick up on the ultrasonic wailing of distressed plants and opt to lay their eggs on different, healthier plants.

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  6. Animals

    Climate stress may undermine male spiders’ romantic gift giving

    Even spider love lives show an effect of climate uncertainty: Stressed males may offer a bit of silk-wrapped junk rather than a tasty insect treat.

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  7. Animals

    How luna moths grow extravagant wings

    Warm temperatures, not just predator pressure, may favor luna moths’ long bat-fooling streamers, a geographic analysis of iNaturalist pics shows.

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  8. Plants

    Carnivorous plants eat faster with a fungal friend

    Insects stuck in sundew plants’ sticky secretions suffocate and die before being subjected to a medley of digestive enzymes.

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  9. Animals

    Crickets and flies face off in a quiet evolutionary battle

    Male crickets in Hawaii softened their chirps once parasitic flies started hunting them. Now, it seems, the flies are homing in on the new tunes.

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  10. Animals

    Chatty bats are more likely to take risks

    Bats may broadcast their personalities to others from a distance, new experiments suggest, which could play into social dynamics within a colony.

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  11. Animals

    Bumblebees lose most of their sense of smell after heat waves

    A few hours in high temps reduced the ability of antennae to detect flower scents by 80 percent. That could impact the bees’ ability to find food.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Honeybees can “smell” lung cancer

    Bees can detect the scent of lung cancer in lab-grown cells and synthetic breath. One day, bees may be used to screen people’s breath for cancer.

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