Insects

X-Ray Study Yields Surprising New Insight About Ancient Bugs

Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Video, Oldest Pollination, Pollination, Paleontology, Insect Pollination, Gymnospollisthrips, Insects, Oldest Insect Pollination, Prehistoric Insects, Thrips, Science News

By: Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Managing Editor Published: 05/14/2012 06:15 PM EDT on LiveScience With massive dinosaurs towering above, tiny fem...

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Why Are Lovebugs Flying Around My Car?

Mark Hostetler | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Cars, Insects, Pests, Automobiles, Highways, Bugs, Flies, Weird Science, Lovebugs, Weird News News

If you live in Florida or in the Southeast, you are currently being inundated by swarms of lovebugs flying around your vehicle. You may be thinking, "Do these critters have a death wish?" Well, there is a reason for everything.

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Tessa Farmer's Savage Fairy World

Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Natural Museum, Video, Taxidermy, Fairies, Danielle Arnaud, Tessa Farmer, Insects, Female Artists, Slideexpand, Fantasy, Arts News

Insect corpses, taxidermy, tree root and superglue are the primary components of London-based artist Tessa Farmer’s intricate sculptural installatio...

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Tiny Bugs Do Dirty Work For Meat-Eating Plants

Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Plants, Carnivorous Plants, Video, Ecology, Insect Behavior, Biology, New Research, Ants, Insects, Symbiosis, Animals, Symbiotic Relationship, Science News

By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 05/09/2012 05:32 PM EDT on LiveScience Carnivorous plants can have valuable allies in ants,...

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Are Bees Everywhere In Trouble?

Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Bee Dieout, Video, Bees, Bee Species, Pollination, Colony Collapse Disorder, Bee Dieoff, Pollinators, Insects, Honeybees, Animals, Bee Colony Collapse Disorder, Green News

Bees are making headlines these days, and not in a positive way. Colony collapse disorder has cut through honeybee populations, with some beekeepers r...

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Tiny Insect Takes Violent Sex To Extreme

Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Video, Bugs Mating, Pirate Bug, Biology, Dagger Penis, Insects, Science, Warehouse Pirate Bug, Science News, Mating Ritual, Animals, Slidepollajax, Science News

By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 05/08/2012 07:07 PM EDT on LiveScience Violent sex is taken to an extreme in warehouse pir...

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When Sex-Starved Males Meet Hungry Females

Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Praying Mantis, Video, Orb Spider, Insect Sex, Insects, Cannibalism, Sexual Cannibalism, Insect Mating, Science News

By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 04/25/2012 06:10 PM EDT on LiveScience For some spiders and the praying mantis, mating is ...

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Spider's Creepy Offering To Mates Spotlighted In New Study

| Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Video, Spider, Insect Behavior, Animal Psychology, Bugs, Insects, Animal Behavior, Animals, Gifts, Nursery Web Spider, Science News

Nothing says love like chewed-up body parts—at least for nursery-web spiders (Pisaura mirabilis). In some populations of these European arachnids, ...

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PHOTOS: Invaluable Tips for the Macro Photographer

Thomas Shahan | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Photography, Digital Media, Nature Photography, Macrophotography, Bugs, Diy Ideas, Diy, Insects, Science, Spiders, Cameras, Animals, Macro, Thomas Shahan, Jumping Spiders, Exposure, Video, Green News

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WATCH: Leg-Snapping Study Spotlights Bug's Amazing Strength

| Erin Loury | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Biomimicry, Grasshopper, Locust, Locust Iron, Biology, Chitin, Grasshopper Legs, Insects, Life Sciences, Insect Cuticle, Locust Legs, Video, Science News

A cockroach crunched underfoot may not seem like a model of strength, but scientists have discovered that bug skeletons are tougher than we think. I...

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Soldier Bugs Use Chemical Warfare, 'Death Squeeze' To Defend Colony

Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Thrip, Video, Life Science, Soldier Bug, Bugs, Biology, Insects, Thunderbugs, Zoology, Animals, Science News

By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 04/10/2012 07:18 PM EDT on LiveScience The insects often called thunderbugs include sold...

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Sick Ants Exhibit Amazing Behavior

Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Nature, Vaccination, Insects, Science, Colonies, Immunity, Sick Ants, Wildlife, Ant Colony, Science News

By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 04/03/2012 05:05 PM EDT on LiveScience Like crowded megacities, busy ant colonies face a h...

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'Drug'-Using Bugs Use Surprising Substance To Fight Infection

Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Self-Medication, Video, Honeybee, Biology, Bee, Insects, Zoology, Tool Use, Propolis, Science News

By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 03/31/2012 09:09 AM EDT on LiveScience When they get sick, bees raid their own "medicine...

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Common Pesticides Harm Bees, Studies Show

Reuters | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Neonicotinoid Insecticides, Bees Neonicotinoids, Pesticides, Video, Bees, Pesticides Bees, Neonicotinoids, Neonicotinoid Pesticides, Common Pesticides, Bees Neonicotinoid Insecticides, Bees Neonicotinoid Pesticides, Insects, Honeybees, Animals, Reuters, Green News

By Kate Kelland LONDON, March 29 (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered ways in which even low doses of widely used pesticides can har...

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WATCH: Honeybees Form 'Bee Ball' To Take Out Predator

Reuters | Mariko Lochridge | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Insects, Video, Hot Defensive Bee Ball, Honeybee, Bee Ball, Wasp, Asian Giant Hornet, Reuters, Science News

By Mariko Lochridge TOKYO (Reuters) - Don't mess with Japanese honeybees. Not only do they cooperate to attack their enemies, researche...

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13 Natural Defenses Against Ants

Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: How to Get Rid of Ants Naturally, Homemade Ways to Get Rid of Ants, Ants, Green-Earth-Day, Natural Ways to Get Rid of Ants, Stopping Ants, Video, Ways to Get Rid of Ants, Green-Living, Natural Ways to Stop Ant Infestation, Ways to Kill Ants, Insects, Ant Infestation, Slidepollajax, Homemade Ways to Kill Ants, How to Get Rid of Ants, Green News

From Mother Nature Network's Kimi Harris: Little tiny ants have been spotted in our new home, and many people are suffering the same fate across th...

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WATCH: Ants' Dying Queen Mated With As Spider Eats Her Head-First

Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Prenolepis Nitens, Video, Ecology, Biology, Crab Spider, Dying Queen, Insects, Ants, Animals, Life Sciences, Insect Mating, Science News

By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 03/24/2012 11:46 AM EDT on LiveScience We can't all be picky about our mates, and ants e...

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'A Bug's Life' Gets Drawn Out

Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Decisions, Video, Pencil Drawing, Insect Behavior, Art Meets Science, Behavior, Weird Art, Quiet Ensemble, Weird, Drawing, Insects, Slidepollajax, Bernardo Vercelli, Biografie, Arts News

Normally we're so preoccupied with what's going on that we never stop to smell the roses or watch the insects! Come to think of it, insects probably w...

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Bee Study Showing Bugs' 'Personalities' Has Biologists Buzzing

Posted 03.09.2012

Read More: Animal Biology, Video, Bees, Personality, Bee Personality, Biology, Entomology, Insects, Genetics, Zoology, Honey Bees, Science News

By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 03/08/2012 02:09 PM EST on LiveScience Like humans and other vertebrates, some bees are ...

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Bizarre Beetle Sperm Use Special Trick To Get Job Done

Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Diving Beetle, Sperm Intelligence, Sperm Team, Entomology, Insects, Beetle, Zoology, Beetle Sperm, Sperm, Sperm Teamwork, Sperm Cooperation, Science News

By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 02/06/2012 03:13 PM EST on LiveScience The sperm of the male diving beetle is serious...

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Insects Top Newly Discovered Species List

Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Insects, New Insect Species, Video, New Species, Insect Species, Green News

By: Remy Melina, LiveScience Staff Writer An annual inventory of newly discovered species lists more than 19,000 – half of them insects. A tota...

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Cirque du Soleil's Ovo Drove Me Buggy... In a Nice Way

Jay Weston | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Santa Monica Pier, Ovo, Cirque Du Soleil, Iris, Insects, La Around Town, LA Theater, Los Angeles News

When the lights went down, the 'insects' started crawling around the stage (and the theatre), and I was immersed in a headlong rush into their colorful ecosystem teeming with weird life.

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WATCH: Swat This! (If You Can)

Posted 01.20.2012

Read More: Fly Somersault, Video, Fly, Flies, Slow Motion, Flight Research, Slow Motion Video, Flight, Insects, Science News

Fly's got skills. The "fly aerial somersault" seen in the slow motion video is actually an escape maneuver performed when a fly is taken by surprise. ...

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Dancing On Ball Of Poop Helps Bug Find Its Way

Posted 01.19.2012

Read More: Navigation, Celestial Navigation, Dung, Insects, Video, Beetle, Dung-Beetles, Dung Ball, Weird Animals, Science News

By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 01/18/2012 05:11 PM EST on LiveScience Dung beetles dance on top of balls of po...

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Zombies!

AP | GOSIA WOZNIACKA | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Bee Deaths, Bee Die-Off, Video, Bees, Parasitic Fly Bee Die-Off, Bugs, Honey Bee Die-Off, Bee Die-Off Parasitic Fly, Bee Hives, Insects, Bee Die Off, Honey Bees, Animals, Ap, Green News

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Northern California scientists say they have found a possible explanation for a honey bee die-off that has decimated hives aro...

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