Science news articles about 'insect world'

  • Worker ants of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your fertility

    ... castes in ants represent the pinnacle of social organization in the insect world. As in any society, however, ant colonies are filled with internal strife and conflict. So what binds ...
  • Team approach appears to work best for insect colonies

    The study's findings appear to echo the insect worlds portrayed in the animated films Antz and Bee Movie, in which the characters live in rigidly conformist societies. Scientists from the Universities ...
  • Team approach appears to work best for insect colonies

    The study's findings appear to echo the insect worlds portrayed in the animated films Antz and Bee Movie, in which the characters live in rigidly conformist societies.
  • Museum Review: Getting Down With All That Skitters, Buzzes or Crawls

    In the new $25 million Audubon Insectarium, which is billed as the first major new institution to open in post-Katrina New Orleans, visitors can engage with the insect world.
  • Novel fungus helps beetles to digest hard wood

    ... Asian longhorned beetles, believe they may have stumbled upon a novel evolutionary adaptation in the insect world. "This type of fungus [in the Asian longhorned beetle] is known to cause disease in ...
  • Insect world royalty shows they really count... up to four

    (PhysOrg.com) -- Research led by the head of visual neuroscience at UQ's Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) has demonstrated honey bees are capable of routinely counting up to four.
  • Chemical come-on successfully lures lovesick lampreys to traps

    ... . Pheromones, chemical scents used to attract a mate, are well-documented in the insect world. Weiming Li, MSU professor of fisheries and wildlife, has focused much of his career on the ...
  • Undersea Mating Habits of the Stars

    ... well on the Internet, mobile devices and other iterations of "the third screen." This season moves from the insect world to the water, and includes a whale, a starfish, a limpet, and an anglerfish ( ...
  • New orchid deception found: wearing the scent of hornet's prey

    ... . The compound the orchids produce, so-called Z-11-eicosen-1-ol, is a rarity even in the insect world, said researchers Manfred Ayasse and Jennifer Brodmann of the University of Ulm ...
  • Bumblebees dive in to fill a void

    Native pollinators such as these fat, fuzzy bumblebees, once an overlooked sideshow in the insect world, are gaining widespread appreciation among everyone from backyard gardeners to big-time farmers. ...
  • Mother knows best

    ... insects control who fathers their offspring. We're only really just beginning to understand the reasons for the different mating strategies in the insect world and that is thanks to new techniques."
  • Tiny Bacteria Secret to Cicada's Success

    ... ) -- John McCutcheon remembers the song of the cicada - the loudest song in the insect world - as the sound track to countless summer hours spent playing outside his childhood home in ...
  • Ladybugs taken hostage by wasps

    ... magpies that don't protect their offspring. And a variety of parasite behaviours exist in the insect world, yet the dynamic between the Dinocampus coccinellae and Coccinella maculata is unusual and ...
  • Ladybugs taken hostage by wasps

    ... in Quebec that forces ladybugs to carry their larvae. These wasps lay their eggs on the ladybug's body, a common practice in the insect world, yet they don't kill their host.

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