Insects
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
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Challenges of Life: The Stalk-Eyed Fly
Posted by "GrrlScientist" on March 19, 2010 tags: Life, Discovery Channel, BBC, Challenges of Life, Stalk-Eyed Fly, animals, mammals, birds, television, streaming video Gail Weiswasser at the Discovery channel emailed a few days ago to tell me about the upcoming March 21 premiere of BBC’s LIFE on the Discovery Channel. LIFE is the 11-part follow up to PLANET EARTH (the most successful…
Challenges of Life: Cheetas Hunting Ostrich
Posted by "GrrlScientist" on March 18, 2010 tags: Life, Discovery Channel, Challenges of Life, Cheetas Hunting Ostrich, animals, mammals, birds, television, BBC, streaming video Gail Weiswasser at the Discovery Channel emailed a few days ago to tell me about the upcoming March 21 premiere of BBC’s LIFE, the 11-part follow up to PLANET EARTH (the most successful natural history documentary of all…
Praying Mantis Attacks Hummingbird
Posted by "GrrlScientist" on March 8, 2010 tags: Praying Mantis, Preying Mantis, mantid, insects, birds, hummingbirds, offbeat, predation, predatory behavior, nature, streaming video Sandy Lizotte, the Ventura Hummingbird Lady, captures a rare and remarkable moment where a praying mantis was waiting patiently at a hummingbird feeder to ambush a hummingbird. As you’ll see in this video, the mantid succeeds.
Migratory Monarch Butterflies ‘See’ Earth’s GeoMagnetic Field
Posted by "GrrlScientist" on January 26, 2010 tags: evolutionary biology, behavioral ecology, biochemistry, biophysics, magnetoreception, photoreceptor, cryptochromes, geomagnetic fields, butterflies, Monarch Butterfly, Danaus plexippus, birds, migration, signal transduction, researchblogging.org,peer-reviewed research, peer-reviewed paper Every autumn, millions of monarch butterflies, Danaus plexippus, each weighing less than one gram (one US penny weighs 2.5 grams), migrate nearly 4000 kilometers (3000 miles) between their summer breeding…
TEDTalks: Charles Anderson Discovers Dragonflies that Cross Oceans
Posted by "GrrlScientist" on January 6, 2010 tags: biology, zoology, insects, Dragonfly, Wandering Glider, Globe Skimmer, Pantala flavescens, migration, Maldives, India, TEDTalks, TED Talks, Charles Anderson, streaming video While living and working as a marine biologist in Maldives, Charles Anderson noticed sudden explosions of dragonflies at certain times of year. He explains how he carefully tracked the path of a plain, little…
Big Apple Bugs: New Cockroach Species Discovered in NYC
Posted by "GrrlScientist" on January 4, 2010 tags: researchblogging.org, new species, insects, American cockroach, Periplaneta americana, DNA barcoding, Brenda Tan, Matt Cost, Mark Stoeckle, Rockefeller University, American Museum of Natural History, AMNH Mystery cockroach found in NYC apartment. Image: Brenda Tan and Matt Cost. Moving overseas has been a challenge, but worst of all for me has been the fact that my…
The Bee Convoy (Reclaiming The Fruits of their Labor)
Posted by "GrrlScientist" on November 23, 2009 tags: insects, comedy, humor, bentekr, animation, streaming video This video shows honeybees at work, and suddenly discovering a pot of honey on a picnic table. What do they do? This video follows the secret life of these bees.
Love Story
Posted by "GrrlScientist" on November 20, 2009 tags: insects, comedy, humor, bentekr, animation, streaming video About the true love of two apple worms becoming separated during harvest times, but like my love story, this one has a happy ending
Ladybug Lurve
Posted by "GrrlScientist" on November 19, 2009 tags: insects, comedy, humor, bentekr, animation, streaming video A love story, starring those sweet little ladybugs. But this love story has a hidden message under all the gooey kisses.
The Ants and the Sugar Cubes
Posted by "GrrlScientist" on November 17, 2009 tags: insects, comedy, humor, bentekr, animation, streaming video This video shows ant culture and society as you’ve never seen it before!