Bizarre New Parasitic Species Discovered… on Twitter
While many of us use social media to be tickled silly by cat videos or wowed by delectable cakes, others use them to discover new…
While many of us use social media to be tickled silly by cat videos or wowed by delectable cakes, others use them to discover new…
Researchers discover a gene in honey bees that causes virgin birth. In a study published on May 7, 2020, in Current Biology, researchers from University…
Honey bees that guard hive entrances are twice as likely to allow in trespassers from other hives if the intruders are infected with the Israeli…
Biological structures sometimes have unique features that engineers would like to copy. For example, many types of insect wings shed water, kill microbes, reflect light…
Analysis of 13,000-year-old fossils suggests photonic nanostructures in insects, which create colorful iridescent colors, may have originated as a means of camouflage. Researchers from Yale-NUS…
Since its accidental introduction in 2003 in France, the yellow-legged Asian hornet (Vespa velutina nigrithorax) is rapidly spreading through Europe. Both experts and citizen scientists…
The tiniest creatures on the planet are vital to their environment … so always look on the small side of life. Some of the tiniest…
A single desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) can consume its body weight in vegetation in one day. That may not sound like much for one 2.5-gram…
Some butterflies have ultra-black wings that rival the blackest materials made by humans, using wing scales that are only a fraction as thick — here’s…
Raking leaves out to the yard edge may increase tick numbers there. If you cleared fallen leaves from your lawn last fall, did you deposit…
Environmental light shown to affect retention of traumatic long-term memory in flies. Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered that Drosophila flies lose long-term memory…
Pesticides can impair brain growth in baby bumblebees, affecting their ability to perform a simple learning task as adults, according to a new study. Imperial…
Some species of deaf moths can absorb as much as 85 percent of the incoming sound energy from predatory bats — who use echolocation to…
High-tech imaging under UV light shows which parts go where when millipedes mate. Scientists have a pretty good handle on how the birds and the…
Bumblebees are the big lifters of the insect world, able to fly back to the hive with almost their own bodyweight in nectar on board….
For most social animals, even humans, the ability to distinguish friend versus foe can be a challenge that often can lead to knee-jerk aggression. But…
If you feed the birds in your backyard, you may be doing more than just making sure they have a source of food: you may…
Habitat loss, pesticide use, and, surprisingly, artificial light are the three most serious threats endangering fireflies across the globe, raising the specter of extinction for…