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Small Insect With a Big Heart: 'Giving' Aphids Endangered by Their Selflessness
One of the founding
principles of Darwin's
theory is that biological
evolution has been shaped by
the survival of the fittest.
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Bees Recognize Human Faces Using Feature Configuration
Bees can be trained to
recognize human faces, so
long as the insects are
tricked into thinking that
the faces are oddly shaped
flowers, new research shows.
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Migrating Insects Fly in the Fast Lane
Scientists shed new light on
the flight behaviors that
enable insects to undertake
long-distance migrations,
and highlights the
remarkable abilities of
these insect migrants. ... > full story
How the Butterflies Got Their Spots
How two butterfly species
have evolved exactly the
same striking wing color and
pattern has intrigued
biologists since Darwin's
day. Now, scientists have
found "hot spots" in the
... > full story
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Will Earlier Springs Throw Nature out of Step?
February 9, 2010 — The recent trend towards earlier UK springs and summers has been accelerating, according to a new study. The research is the most comprehensive and rigorous assessment so far of long-term changes in ... > full story -
Conservation from Space: Landscape Diversity Helps to Conserve Insects
February 8, 2010 — Rugged, hilly landscapes with a range of different habitat types can help maintain more stable butterfly populations and thus aid their conservation, according to new findings. This has implications ... > full story -
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Fewer Honey Bee Colonies and Beekeepers Throughout Europe
February 5, 2010 — The number of bee colonies in Central Europe has decreased over recent decades. In fact, the number of beekeepers has been declining in the whole of Europe since ... > full story -
Mescal Worm Test Shows DNA Leaks Into Preservative Liquids
February 5, 2010 — Just because you don't swallow the worm at the bottom of a bottle of mescal doesn't mean you have avoided the essential worminess of the potent Mexican liquor, according to scientists. They have ... > full story -
Bad News for Mosquitoes: Scent Receptor Research May Lead to Better Traps, Repellents
February 4, 2010 — Researchers have found more than two dozen scent receptors in malaria-transmitting mosquitoes that detect compounds in human sweat, a finding that may help scientists to develop new ways to combat a ... > full story -
Storm Runoff and Sewage Treatment Outflow Contaminated With Household Pesticides
February 3, 2010 — Pyrethroid pesticides were supposed to be a benign replacement for organophosphates used around the home, but a new study shows that these insecticides are showing up at toxic levels in storm runoff ... > full story -
Almond Tree's Secret Weapon
February 2, 2010 — Has the almond tree developed a unique way of drawing potential pollinators? A group of researchers in Israel speculate that the toxin called amygdalin that is found in almond tree nectar is in fact ... > full story -
Virus Pulls Bait and Switch on Insect Vectors
February 1, 2010 — A common plant virus lures aphids to infected plants by making the plants more attractive, but when the insects taste the plant, they quickly leave for tastier, healthier ones. In the process, the ... > full story -
Monarch Butterflies Reveal a Novel Way in Which Animals Sense Earth's Magnetic Field
January 27, 2010 — Building on prior investigation into the biological mechanisms through which monarch butterflies are able to migrate up to 2,000 miles from eastern North America to a particular forest in Mexico each ... > full story -
Natural Pest Control Saves Coffee Berry
January 27, 2010 — A predator for the devastating coffee berry borer has just been discovered in Africa. Researchers have identified a previously unknown predatory thrips which feeds on the eggs and larvae of the ... > full story
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