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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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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The 'wall' that keeps flesh-eating worms out of America
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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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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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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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