Category: Insects
At the NC Museum of Natural Sciences: What's Bugging You? Animals We Love to Hate Wednesday, September 30, 2009 8:00 - 10:00 am with discussion beginning at 9:00 followed by Q&A Location: The Acro Cafe - 4th Floor of the...
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Category: Insects
The World is a radio show co-produced by WGBH Boston, Public Radio International and BBC. You can probably hear it on your local NPR station - if not, you can find all the shows recorded on the website. You may...
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Category: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
A couple of German bloggers and I went to see the Butterfly House on the Island of Mainau. They had good cameras with lenses that allowed them to take extreme close-ups. I had to do with a little pocket camera,...
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Category: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
I am pretty sure it's a true bug (i.e., I am not being sloppy by calling just any ole' insect a bug). I got as close as I could with my iPhone, but the lighting was bad. This is on...
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Category: Animal Behavior
Most people are aware that social insects, like honeybees, have three "sexes": queens, drones and workers. Drones are males. Their only job is to fly out and mate with the queen after which they drop dead. Female larvae fed 'royal...
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Category: Insects
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Category: Ecology
Genetic Manipulation of Pest Species: Ecological and Social Challenges: In the past 10 years major advances have been made in our ability to build transgenic pest strains that are conditionally sterile, harbor selfish genetic elements, and express anti-pathogen genes. Strategies...
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Category: Insects
From Mimi....
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Category: Animal Behavior
A well-written press release on a very well done and exciting study: Honey bees on cocaine dance more, changing ideas about the insect brain: In a study published in 2007, Robinson and his colleagues reported that treatment with octopamine caused...
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Posted by Coturnix at 8:57 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Insects
This insect has been sitting on my window, completely motionless, all day. It is about 2in long in the body, probably around 5-6in if one includes the stretched legs. What is this? Does it sting or can I handle it...
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