New Scientist reveals an accidental discovery that happened when a passing swarm of bees got close to a weather station on a clear day – and the sensors noted a jump in atmospheric electricity… Read the rest “A bee swarm can generate 8 times more electricity than a storm cloud.”
MIT Technology Review offers a strange solution to a serious problem. They’ve got robot bees who can dance inside a bee hive to direct workers to pesticide-free flower patches:
… Read the rest “Robot honeybees can steer hives to safer flowers.”After
Reuters reports on a painstaking headcount that proves that for every one of the nearly 8 billion humans on Earth, there are 2.5 million ants:
… Read the rest “In case you ever wondered, there are 20 quadrillion ants in the world. And that makes them important.”“Ants certainly play a very central role
Rice University robotics engineers are playing with dead things – spiders, to be precise – and say they’ve come up with a breakthrough in precision picker-uppers by… Read the rest ““Necrobotic” spiders grab things more precisely than machine fingers.”
Science News takes a long whiff of a chemical that smells like oranges and flowers that’s given off by people (and other mammals) infected with dengue and Zika. The chemical seems … Read the rest “The orange-blossom odor of mosquito-borne diseases… actually attracts mosquitoes.”
These are beetles, mostly from southern Asia except the last one, Dexoris, which is from Sierra Leone. These specific beetles became British (perhaps posthumously) and were recorded … Read the rest “Science Art: Lycidae, Plate XVIII, Edw. A. Smith, 1879”
This is a collection of bits and pieces (including “male genital armature” in 1s and 1t) of Pseudotremia cavernarum, the cave millipede. Yes, the researchers got up close … Read the rest “Science Art: Lysiopetalum Cavernarum, Etc., Emerton & Packard, del., 1888.”
Science News has unfortunate news for arachnophobes who like relaxing in bamboo furniture. For the first time in more than a century, a new species of tarantula has been discovered in Asia,… Read the rest “We discovered a new kind of tarantula. It lives inside bamboo.”
This is a European cherry fruit fly, one of those creatures whose names say exactly what they are: a fruit fly that lives on cherries in Europe. The image came from the 1920 edition of Nordisk… Read the rest “Science Art: La Mouche des cerises (Rhagoletis cerasi), d’après une ancienne encyclopédie suédoise, 1920”
Two moths, pictured in The Field Book of Insects by Frank E. Lutz.
A. io, with the big roundels on its wings, is better known as the io moth. D. rubicunda is more commonly called the rosy maple… Read the rest “Science Art: Auiomeris io, Dryocampa rubicunda by Edna Libby Beutenmüller, 1918.”
SONG: “Butterflies”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Discover, 3 Nov 21, “How Citizen Scientists Uncovered the Strange Behavior of ‘Vampire’ Butterflies,” as used… Read the rest “SONG: Butterflies”
Discover magazine reveals a grisly bit of previously unknown insect behavior recorded by Yi-Kai Tea and his fellow citizen scientists on the island of Sulawesi, where they photographed… Read the rest “Indonesian citizen scientists discover VAMPIRE CANNIBAL BUTTERFLIES”
Scientific American looks at scientific Kenyans, who have taken advantage of one of the few things elephants are actually afraid of – stinging honeybees – to keep their fields… Read the rest “African farmers use bee hives as elephant-proof fences.”
From the June 1949 issue of Natural History, the magazine of the American Museum of Natural History (which is archived here) comes a handy reference guide for telling the temperature based… Read the rest “Science Art: The Cricket Thermometer, by Cleve Hallenbeck.”
Scientific American marvels at caffeinated bumblebees, and the researchers who give busy bees caffeine and sugar to make them more focused and efficient:
… Read the rest “Bees on java.”[University of Greenwich ecologist
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