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Roaches Are Evolving Their Way Around Our Traps
In the ongoing battle between humans and cockroaches, the insects have a leg up. A new study finds that roaches evolved their taste buds to make sweet insecticide baits taste bitter. As a result, the...
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The New 'Pirate Ant' Looks Like It's Made Of Glass
This amazing new species of ant, found in the Philippines, is called the Pirate Ant. It really looks like it's made of glass!The research team, led by Sabine Frohschammer, a PhD student at Universität...
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Man Dies After Killer Bee Attack
A Texas man died after being attacked by a swarm of Africanized honeybees, sometimes called "killer bees."Larry Goodwin, 62, was driving a tractor near his home south of Waco when he disturbed a pile...
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25,000 Bees Died In This Parking Lot Because Landscapers Allegedly Didn't...
A Target parking lot in Wilsonville, Oregon, was the site of a massive bumblebee kill on Monday, June 17, the cause of which is still under investigation.An estimated 25,000 bumblebees were found...
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An Aggressive, Bloodthirsty Mosquito Is Invading The U.S
There's a new pest invading many American towns, and it's about as menacing as it sounds: the Asian tiger mosquito.Named for the black-and-white stripes on its body, the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes...
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Honeybees Are Right 'Handed'
When bees are forced to interact with only their left antennas, they have trouble bee-having: Just as humans shake with their right hands, bees also greet each other by predominantly using their right...
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Corpse-Eating Flies Rediscovered After Being Extinct For More Than A Century
Behold the bone-skipper, high in the running for the strangest fly on Earth. For the bone-skipper, fresh carcasses just won't do. No, these flies prefer large, dead bodies in advanced stages of decay....
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'Spider Bites' Aren't Usually From Spiders
If the thought of spiders makes your skin crawl, you might find it reassuring that the chances of being bitten by a spider are smaller than you imagine, recent research shows.Most so-called "spider...
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How To Deal With And Prevent Mosquito Bites
Mosquitoes are out all over the United States, and they are sucking the blood out of any warm or cold-blooded creature they can find.They can be incredibly annoying, and some people think they...
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This Small Patch Could Make You Invisible To Mosquitoes
Mosquito defense may have a new secret weapon.It looks like a nicotine patch, but the little diamond-shaped Kite Patch is laced with a very special sauce that its developers claim can protect whomever...
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Mosquito Expert Calls Out A Big Problem In The Plot Of Jurassic Park
There's a glaring mistake in the 1993 dinosaur classic Jurassic Park that any good entomologist would know. The mosquito used in the film is completely the wrong species.In the film, scientists extract...
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A Brooklyn Duo May Have Finally Figured Out How To Get Americans To Start...
Exo, a Brooklyn-based company, is building a new kind of protein bar with a cricket-y twist.In addition to natural ingredients like raw cacao, dates, almond butter, and coconut, the nutrient-dense...
View ArticleA 'Legendary' Outbreak Of Mosquitoes Has Taken Over The Alaskan Arctic Tundra
Columbia graduate student Shannan Sweet posted this YouTube video of the insane swarms of mosquitoes that have overwhelmed researchers on the Arctic Tundra. Sweet herself has been studying the plants...
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VIDEO: Giant Water Bug Stalks And Devours A Fish
Insects are pretty low on the food chain, but there are some bugs that turn the tables, making meals out of other animals like fish and amphibians.Scientists have captured video footage of a ferocious...
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A Mosquito Biting You Looks Horrifying Under A Microscope
The horrific video below shows what actually happens when a mosquito pierces your skin and goes searching for blood.It's not just a stick-it-in-and-suck action like you probably guessed. The mosquito's...
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Why Insects Have Gay Sex
Insect sex may seem fairly simple: fluttering dances, clasping abdomens, a quick mount on a forest floor. But a new review of homosexual insect encounters suggests the acts may not be that...
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Here's Why Mosquitoes Can't Transmit HIV
HIV/AIDS kills about 1.6 million people every year, according to the most recent World Health Organization data. Hopefully, high school health classes taught us all how to avoid contraction: Don't have...
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Huge Numbers Of Crickets Are Invading Oklahoma [PICTURES]
A giant cricket infestation is taking over parts of Oklahoma, according to residents' social media posts, and the images are shocking.Oklahoma resident Laura O'Malley told News On 6 in Tulsa that the...
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New Study Drives A Nail In The 'Jurassic Park' Coffin — Amber-Preserved...
A new study suggests the worst possible news for fans of Jurassic Park: it's not possible to isolate DNA from amber-preserved insects.Researchers from the University of Copenhagen tried to isolate DNA...
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Scientists Just Found The First Ever Example Of Mechanical Gears In Nature
Gears are ubiquitous in the man-made world, found in items ranging from wristwatches to car engines, but it seems that nature invented them first.A species of plant-hopping insect, Issus coleoptratus,...
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