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Baby bees keep their moms up all night, too.

10 January 2021 grant 0

Scientific American‘s 60-Second Science recently covered the neurology of parenthood, revealing how sleep deprivation for caregivers extends to insects as well: Researchers found that worker […]

Male crickets use leaves to make themselves seem bigger… in THAT way, yes.

23 December 2020 grant 0

Science News brings attention to male shortcomings and the gender’s creativity in overcoming them with a story about crickets who use leaves as megaphones, amplifying […]

The one molecule that turns grasshoppers into locusts.

18 August 2020 grant 0

Science News reveals the one chemical that transforms harmless, solitary insects into a crop-destroying, famine-triggering locust swarm: Now, scientists have pinpointed a compound emitted by […]

Insects are dying off – except those living in fresh water.

29 April 2020 grant 0

The Guardian has grim news for bugs (which include critters like the bees that pollinate our crops) with a little flash of hope. Insect populations […]

Nature: “How a fly came to love the vomit fruit”

25 March 2020 grant 0

You know, I went looking for some non-coronavirus science news, and Nature provided this gem of a headline about a plucky Drosophilia fruit-fly species and […]

How larvae leap long with no legs

15 August 2019 grant 0

Science News looks at high-speed photo research that reveals how a gall midge larva can leap up to 36 times its body length without any […]

A scientific illustration of a mite.

Science Art: Plate LIL, Fig 3: Cepheus bifidatus Nymph, from British Oribatidae, 1884

31 March 2019 grant 0

Click to embiggen Mm. Mighty mite. From a this book of mites. Luckily for us, these mites (the Oribatidae) aren’t parasitic. They live in dirt […]

Ichneumon Fly, a scientific illustration

Science Art: Ichneumon Fly, from the USDA’s Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, 1941

24 March 2019 grant 0

Click to embiggen “Lays eggs on larva boring in wood.” Add just one comma and that comes across as harsh criticism, but it’s really meant […]

We’ve discovered a tarantula with a horn on its back.

19 February 2019 grant 0

National Geographic has details that are bound to give arachnophobes THE WILLIES, but for the rest of us, there’s this rather large spider in Angola […]

Mathematical bees. The insect, not the competition. They know their numbers!

12 February 2019 grant 0

The Guardian demonstrates mathematical skills in creatures that don’t even have internal skeletons, with Australian research that shows bees handling some rather sophisticated calculations… for […]

Diet drugs can prevent malaria and encephalitis – by making mosquitos less hungry.

8 February 2019 grant 0

Nature reports on a lifesaving use for diet drugs: Female Aedes aegypti, like other mosquito species, feed on blood to get the protein they need […]

The honeybee’s greatest foe isn’t after their blood – it’s sucking their *fat*.

18 January 2019 grant 0

Science Daily puts the beekeeper’s foe, the varroa mite (believed to be a key player in Colony Collapse Disorder), in a new light. The parasite […]

Parasitic wasp makes zombie cockroaches.

31 October 2018 grant 0

That’s a string of creepiness there, isn’t it? Everybody knows (I hope) the way some parasitic wasps turn caterpillars into living meat lockers for their […]

Polydesmus

Science Art: Introverted Millipede (Magukbaforduló ikerszelvényesek).

21 October 2018 grant 0

Click to embiggen This is an old, old fellow named Polydesmus. One of the first land animals there ever was. From the image’s description on […]

Mushrooms could save the bees. Maybe.

8 October 2018 grant 0

Wired shares the latest unexpected benefit from mushroom fundi Paul Stamets, who may have found a weapon to beat back CCD, the syndrome that’s devastating […]

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