Tag: insects
Traditional zebra-like tattoos protect tribes-people from insect bites
A stripe a day keeps the bug bites away!
Without tree husks to house them, Europe’s beetles are dying out
Sometimes not tidying up can be a good thing.
Elusive stick insect thought extinct for 80 years is still alive and kicking
The amazing story of an insect presumed dead for decades.
Bed bugs love your dirty laundry, and this has helped them travel the globe
Human laundry is a magnet for bed bugs.
Dominant wasps hand out breaks when workers are scarce, become horrible bosses when they’re plentiful
Wasps should really form their own labor union.
Bees can feel optimism, possibly other ’emotion-like states’ as well, study finds
All it takes to make them happy is some sugar.
No web, no worries — spiders also like to eat vegetarian
Spiders' diets aren't limited to juicy insect bits. They spice up their menus with vegetarian courses too, zoologists from the ...
New firefly species from California discovered by undergrad student
Despite what you might have seen or not seen, there are actually some fireflies living west of the Rocky Mountains, ...
Flying insects evolved wings 406 million years ago, most complex insect family tree reveals
An international team of more than 100 scientists has undertaken a most complex and challenging task: they've determined the timings and ...
Swarm of 1,000 robots self-assemble in complex shapes
In a breakthrough in robotics, researchers have programmed a swarm consisting of a whooping 1,024 members which can assemble in ...
The new spring: charts showing different take to global warming
A while ago, Andrei published a post in which he uploaded and spoke about seven key charts that show plain ...
YouTube’s craziest DIY projects: a 2-tonne mechanical insect
Mantis-DIY-Mechanical-Insect We all had our various obsessions as children, but most of us grew out of ...
Insect homosexuality just a case of mistaken identity
Some of you might find it surprising to hear that a lot of animals engage in homosexual behavior. Close to ...
This insect is the first known creature gifted by nature with ‘mechanical gears’
Magnified view of the first known biological gears present at the hind legs of the issus, ...
Mysterious engineering insect builds white-picket fence to protect egg nest
While browsing reddit the other day, I came across a most peculiar finding. One of the users, Decapod73 or Tony Alexander in ...
Dung beetle uses poop ball cargo as air conditioning
The dung beetle is an extreme survivor. Not only does it feed on poop, but it also fashions a hefty ...
Fossil find of 520 million year-old arthropod might be the missing link in insects evolution
Captioned is a nearly intact fossil of Fuxianhuia protensa. The inset shows the fossilized brain in ...
Termite workers suicide to protect colony from invaders. Remarkable social behavior
Defense, like offence, is expensive for any animal. It takes resources and a lot of energy, and for some, it ...
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