Scientists in China and Japan have come up with a new system for getting power from the sun… by building solar panels like butterfly wings:
… Read the rest “The Power of a Butterfly’s Wing”AZoM, the A to Z of Materials:
Di Zhang and
Wired’s Danger Room blog now has me imagining what it would be like to come under attack from a buzzing swarm of remote-controlled rhinoceros beetles:
… Read the rest “Cyber-insects taking off.”Researchers hooked a series
The BBC has video up of romancing mosquitoes creating their high, keening love songs:
… Read the rest “Love is… mosquitoes buzzing in harmony.”Males and females each have their own characteristic flight tone – which they create by beating
Entolomologists working in Borneo have found what they believe to be world’s longest insect:
… Read the rest “Big Stick.”PhysOrg writes:
The specimen was found by a local villager and handed to Malaysian amateur
Science Daily was recently buzzing about the decision-making strategies of bees:
… Read the rest “A Committee of Beehive Realtors?”Scientists had known that honeybee scouts “waggle dance” to report on food. Seeley and
Scientists, as the Telegraph points out, have long been mystified by the bumblebee. It’s short and fat with stubby wings that, mathematically speaking, should never be able to generate… Read the rest “Fly like a bumblebee.”
Does anyone else remember these from Insects Do The Strangest Things? Oh, what a fine children’s book that is.
From Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English … Read the rest “Science Art: Honey Ant, Webster’s New International”
If you like your food a little spicy, EurekAlert.org might whet your appetite in a crawly kind of way… because hot peppers owe everything to bugs:
… Read the rest “Spicy bugs.”The spiciness is a defense mechanism
Is it smiling at you?
From Louisa Howard at the Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility.
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