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Breakfast with a side of Science - What's Bugging You? Animals We Love to Hate
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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The Butterfly House on the island of Mainau
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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Name this Bug!
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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Why social insects do not suffer from ill effects of rotating and night shift work?
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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Yes!!! Circus of the Spineless is Alive Again!
Category: Carnivals
Hop over to The Other 95% and dig into all the invertebrate bloggy goodness!...
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Circadian Rhythm of Aggression in Crayfish
Category: Animal Behavior
A new paper on circadian rhythms in crayfish behavior.
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Bizarre Squid Sex (no video)
Category: Animal Behavior
In National Geographic: A new investigation into the tangled sex lives of deep-sea squid has uncovered a range of bizarre mating techniques. The cephalopods' intimate encounters include cutting holes into their partners for sex, swapping genders, and deploying flesh-burrowing sperm....
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27 Best Deep-Sea Species, take two
Category: Invertebrates
The list is now final. Here are the top 13: #13 Deep-sea corals #12: Yeti Crab #11 Venus's Flower Basket #10: Echinothuriid Sea Urchins #9: Bathynomus, the GIANT ISOPOD!!!! #8 Red Lure Jellyfish #7 Predatory Tunicates #6: Giant Sea Spiders...
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Can you raise sea-water blue crabs in fresh-water ponds?
Category: Food
Apparently yes: Freshwater Farm Ponds Turning into Crab Farms: North Carolina's native blue crab population has been at historic lows since 2000. Dr. Dave Eggleston, director of NC State's Center for Marine Sciences and Technology (CMAST) and professor of marine,...
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