Bees are capable of solving problems, using tools, forming culture, and even playing
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Hawaiian caterpillar patrols spiderwebs camouflaged in insect prey’s body parts
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Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing -- colonies surged fifteen-fold
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One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants
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The hidden world of electrostatic ecology
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Collecting sex-crazed zombie cicadas on speed: Scientists track a bug-controlling super-sized fungus
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It's weirder than I thought. How cicadas make noise (in ultra slow motion).
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Human brains and fruit fly brains are built similarly – visualizing how helps researchers better understand how both work
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Why flying insects gather at artificial light
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Tiny ant species disrupts lion's hunting behavior
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Roar of cicadas was so loud, it was picked up by fiber-optic cables
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A new study uncovers liver flukes' savvy manipulation of ants, making them climate-aware zombies
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The reshuffling of neurons during fruit fly metamorphosis suggests that larval memories don’t persist in adults
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New York gets ready for a hot Spotted Lanternfly summer
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Bees just wanna have fungi - a review of bee associations with nonpathogenic fungi
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What animal or insect going extinct would have the greatest impact on the ecosystem?
Curious on some replies here. I always hear having bees go extinct would be horrible for us. Curious if that’s the worse?
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It's the Matrix, but for locusts
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Dispelling common myths about bed bugs
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One more reason to hate cockroaches
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How do fireflies flash in sync? Studies suggest a new answer.
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How to speak honeybee
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Why insects are more sensitive than they seem
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Scientists have taught bees to smell the coronavirus
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Scientists want your help stalking billions of Cicadas
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Florida mosquitoes: 750 million genetically modified insects to be released
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What does the world look like from a beetle’s-eye view? Researchers strapped tiny cameras to the insects’ backs to find out
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Blowing bubbles: Soapy spheres pop pollen on fruit trees
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A Google plan to wipe out mosquitoes appears to be working
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Gene-drive technology could alter entire species, help eliminate malaria and prevent extinctions, but assessing the risks is difficult
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A newly-discovered species of beetle, Nelloptodes gretae, has been named after young climate activist Greta Thunberg
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Increasingly, scientists are taking note of the many indications that insects exhibit consciousness-like phenomena
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GM mosquito progeny not dying in Brazil: study
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Genetically modified mosquitoes breed in Brazil
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Nature’s skyscrapers: X-ray imaging reveals the secrets of termite mounds
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Where disease-carrying mosquitoes will go in the future
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Scientists release controversial genetically modified mosquitoes in high-security lab
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World's biggest bee found alive
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Zebra stripes prevent biting flies from making controlled landings
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Hundreds of bees mysteriously die in regional South Australia
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40,000 year old nematodes, frozen in Siberian permafrost, come back to life
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Bogong moths use the Earth's magnetic field to get their bearings on long distance migrations
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This humble Australian bee is helping to disrupt the plastics industry
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Math bee: Honeybees seem to understand the notion of zero
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Dance of the Honeybees: By pairing the sun’s direction with the flow of gravity, honeybees explain the distant locations of food by dancing, essentially using 2D representations of 6D shapes as guides
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So ... Sometimes fireflies eat other fireflies
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