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The Power of a Butterfly’s Wing

10 February 2009 grant b 0

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:

AZoM, the A to Z of Materials:

Di Zhang and

… Read the rest “The Power of a Butterfly’s Wing”

Cyber-insects taking off.

29 January 2009 grant b 0

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:

Researchers hooked a series

… Read the rest “Cyber-insects taking off.”

Love is… mosquitoes buzzing in harmony.

13 January 2009 grant b 0

The BBC has video up of romancing mosquitoes creating their high, keening love songs:

Males and females each have their own characteristic flight tone – which they create by beating

… Read the rest “Love is… mosquitoes buzzing in harmony.”

Big Stick.

21 October 2008 grant b 0

Entolomologists working in Borneo have found what they believe to be world’s longest insect:

PhysOrg writes:
The specimen was found by a local villager and handed to Malaysian amateur

… Read the rest “Big Stick.”

A Committee of Beehive Realtors?

1 October 2008 grant b 0

Science Daily was recently buzzing about the decision-making strategies of bees:

Scientists had known that honeybee scouts “waggle dance” to report on food. Seeley and

… Read the rest “A Committee of Beehive Realtors?”

Fly like a bumblebee.

8 September 2008 grant b 0

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.”

Science Art: Honey Ant, Webster’s New International

31 August 2008 grant b 0

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”

Spicy bugs.

15 August 2008 grant b 0

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:

The spiciness is a defense mechanism

… Read the rest “Spicy bugs.”

Science Art: Butterfly Tongue

13 July 2008 grant b 0



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