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The mysterious bees are missing
For some reason, bees all over Germany are disappearing in recent months. In the United States, bees are also dying of unexplained mass, to the point of causing economic…
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Biology
Insects 'cooperate' with viruses to expand the world
A bug that is harmful to crops is combining with viruses to accelerate their spread across the globe, Chinese scientists report. A variation of white butterflies Bemisia…
Biology
How do orchids affect their pollinators?
Everyone knows the orchid structure has a special feature, which is the petal below that turns into a lip, like a landing area for pollinators (pollinator). Lip wings tr…
Biology
Identify molecules sensitive to CO2 in insects
Carbone dioxide (CO2) emitted by plants or humans helps insects determine their location and locate food sources. So the CO2 that we release when breathing allows mosqui…
Biology
Jumping out of the bugs need to do?
In the colorful world of existing insects on our planet, little is known about a very small group of insects that live in the soil. It is the jumping beetle group, the s…
Biology
Insects disguise as predators to escape
A butterflies in Costa Rica use a unique method to escape when encountering jumping spiders, which is to imitate the shape and action of the predator. In turn, jumping s…
Biology
You can detect bombs
American scientists claim they have succeeded in teaching honey bees to pick up when they smell explosive. This tiny insect can become a powerful assistant to the securi…
Biology
Leaf bug
Insects with green leaf shapes. Body length 95 mm. The upper and lower wings are long and wide, green and leaf shaped. Two wings under a fan-shaped shape, have many vein…
Biology
Why are cocoons of insects very strong?
British biologists Andrew Parker and Abigail Ingram (Oxford University) have found an extremely effective way to pick cocoons of insects that can adhere very firmly to t…
Biology
Decipher the mysterious life of honey bees
Scientists have deciphered the honey bee genome, finding clues about their complex social behaviors. The result is that bees become the second insect after fruit flies a…
Biology
Mantis
It is a large insect, 40 - 80 mm long, has two front wings and two wings after a wide development. The rear wings look like glass panels and only on the front edge on th…
Biology
Queen bees are more promiscuous, herds are stronger
The more prolific the queen bees and endless encounters, the more healthy the herds are created. Researchers have found that royal honey bees mate with countless males t…
Biology
Insects will grow huge if the earth has plenty of oxygen
Nearly 300 million years ago, giant insects also roamed and flapped their wings on the planet, with dragonflies with large wingspan of hawks - about 76 cm. At that time,…
Biology
The beetle of the beetle
The beetle's larvae form the bees that are so ingenious that male bees will try to pair with them and bring them home. These larvae thus live in luxury by