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Lessons from insect masters
With up to 350,000 species, insects not only have beauty and abundance but also have very special abilities.
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Biology
Spray blood to avoid being eaten
In order to become a difficult item for predators, armor crickets have a great ability to spray blood out and vomit food out of their mouths whenever they are caught to…
Biology
Corn genetically alters itself
By cultivating more genes, Swiss scientists have just created corn that is able to secrete chemicals to kill them when they chew on their roots.
Biology
Insects: neglected victims of climate change
Insect species such as butterflies and beetles will need many protection measures equivalent to typical species associated with previous conservation campaigns, such as…
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Festival for drinking water
Although brutally beaten by males during mating, females of beetle eating pea are still excited and constantly come back many times to
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Strange bloodthirsty behavior of beetles
American scientists see a beetle in the Peruvian rainforest attacking and eating the swarms.
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New moves in the fight against insects
If one finds a new harmful insect, people often deal with it by finding a species that likes to eat them.
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The nematode genome provides an understanding of the evolution of parasites
Scientists have deciphered the genome of the Pristionchus pacificus nematode, thereby bringing new insights into the evolution of parasites.
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The longest insect in the world
A species of rod beetle, scientific name Phobaeticus chani, has been identified by famous scientists in the United Kingdom and the United States as the longest insect in…
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Large horns cause small organs to mate
The sometimes bizarre display features that increase the chance of finding animal partners also affect the reproductive process of the population as well as the evolutio…
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Mushrooms help beetles digest wood
According to a group of entomologists and biochemists, a small, little-known fungus in the gut of Asian long-horned beetles has helped them chew the hardest wood.
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Color of insects with anti-cancer drugs and tropical diseases
According to researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, the beetle-colored beetles or butterfly-colored larvae may signal chemical compounds t…
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No smell, no sex in Japanese beetles
If a male bug of the Japanese beetle family cannot detect pheromone sex hormone produced by the female, it will not be able to determine the location of the female as we…
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GM crops do not harm beneficial beetles
Genetically modified plants using Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis), a common soil bacterium, to kill pests will not harm the natural enemies of pests, according to a new stud…
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Ancient ecosystem is very similar to today's ecosystem
It is the world where the giant Anomalocaris cups meat of three-lobed beetles, contributing in that world to species that no longer exist on the earth today. But accordi…