I’m reading a EurekAlert report on entomologists sitting ringside watching the fastest boxers in the world – trap-jaw ants:
… Read the rest “*Ants* have the speed… when it comes to boxing.”In a new study, entomologists at the University
Science Daily reveals how one species of ant takes on their own brains and programs their social roles – doing the job we thought DNA did:
… Read the rest “Florida carpenter ants program themselves.”In Florida carpenter ant colonies, distinct
Nature reveals how spiders can use webbing to sail through the air… and then land on water and keep on sailing:
… Read the rest “Sorry, arachnophobes. Spiders can go *everywhere*.”Morito Hayashi, a spider researcher at the Natural History Museum in
This seems to be a minute beetle, as pictured in Objects for the microscope, being a popular description of the most instructive and beautiful subjects for exhibition… Read the rest “Science Art: Beetle, magnified 26 diameters, 1871.”
In 1930, this picture… or rather, the picture with the inscriptions beside it… had never before been published. And the inscriptions are rather interesting.… Read the rest “Plate LXXVII: The First Picture of an American Butterfly from The Butterfly Book by W.J. Holland, 1930 edition.”
Can’t beat NBC’s headline for this: Insects Wear Tiny Spacesuits, for Science:
… Read the rest “Insects in tiny space suits. Real ones. In a vacuum.”Scanning electron microscopes (SEM) provide incredibly detailed images of biological specimens,
From Marvels of Insect Life: A Popular Account of Structure and Habit, edited by Edward Step, found in the BioDiversity Library.
This is probably not exactly the book Dylan… Read the rest “Science Art: Nest of the Honey-Wasp Attacked by Jaguar, 1916”
This is a strange bug from PHIL, the CDC’s Public Health Image Library. Not the kind of bug the CDC usually deals with… it’s an unidentified insect found,… Read the rest “Science Art: #11268 (Small, Unidentified Insect On the Exoskeletal Surface Of A Dragonfly)”
They itch. They dig in and they itch.
These are the mites that cause scabies, the tiny tunnelers, burrowing into the skin and digesting as they go. If your German’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Sarcoptes scabiei, from Brockhaus’ Konversations-Lexikon, 1892.”
A prehistoric worm with claws, says Live Science, has rewritten the origin story of crabs, spiders and mosquitos:
… Read the rest “Clawed worm rewrites evolutionary history.”According to a new study of the creatures’ odd claws, Hallucigenia
SONG: “Colonies.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Bees build mental maps to get home”, Nature… Read the rest “SONG: “Colonies””
Nature reveals a truth with some odd implications about insects’ inner lives. Memory tests prove that bees are more thoughtful than we realize:
… Read the rest “Bees know their way. As in they *know*. They remember.”“The surprise comes for many people
When it comes to finding new information, The Independent reports, those crazy, criss-crossing paths that ants take are more efficient than Google at processing new information:
… Read the rest “Ant colonies are smarter than Google.”The
Science Daily peeks into the mind of insects with new research that shows that fruit flies think before they act:
… Read the rest “Thinking insects”In experiments asking fruit flies to distinguish between ever closer concentrations
The Guardian (with a little help from Harvard) confirms what folks have suspected for a while – that Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is largely due to neonicotinoid pesticides:
… Read the rest “It really is the nicotine-based pesticide that’s killing all the bees.”In
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