Whether you choose to kill insects or not, there is one bug across the northeastern United States health officials want you to take care of immediately: the spotted lanternfly.
Most insects can fly. Yet scores of species have lost that extraordinary ability, particularly on islands.
Every year, companies like GoPro manage to pack more and more functionality into smaller and smaller action cameras that are less obtrusive to wear. But a team of researchers from the University of Washington has managed to build a live-streaming wireless camera that’s so small even an insect can wear it.
“This is one of the most disturbing articles I have ever read.”
A research arm of the U.S. military is exploring the possibility of deploying insects to make plants more resilient by altering their genes. Some experts say the work may be seen as a potential biological weapon.
When black rats invaded Lord Howe Island after the 1918 wreck of the steamship Makambo, they wiped out numerous native species on the small Australian isle in the Tasman Sea including a big, flightless insect that resembled a stick.
An international team of paleontologists has discovered the oldest known examples of ‘fungus gardens’ within 25 million-year-old fossilized termite nests from southwestern Tanzania.
“Their experience of the world is not as rich or as detailed as our experience – our big neocortex adds something to life!”
“The incorporation of metals into insect jaws has been known for years, but it really hasn’t been studied in great detail,”
I think the fossil evidence shows that modern malaria vectored by mosquitoes is at least 20 million years old,
