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National Insects

Night Sounds in Panama Identiied

The rainy season has just begun again in Panama. With the rains come amazing blooms on plants. Animals begin to move around, seeking mates for the...
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Fossils hint at origin of insect hearing

Researchers working at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center published an examination of 50 million year old cricket and katydid fossils that...
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Venom tossing ants

Crematogaster striatula, a species of African ants, have been documented to have such potent venom that their primary enemy (termites) can be...
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120 million year old silky lacewing

A team of researchers from the Capital Normal University in Beijing, China and the Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences in Vladivostok, Russia...
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Aren't spiders and slugs among God's beautiful creatures?

My wife always has her radio alarm set to a Christian radio station as a wake-up alarm each work morning. That is fine, even though I do find the...
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Coxoplectoptera newest insect fossil

Dr. Arnold H. Staniczek and Dr. Günter Bechly the Stuttgart Natural History Museum led a team that discovered a new "missing link" in...
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Wasps and dinosaurs lives forever intertwined

Paleontologists from Argentina have used exceptionally preserved dinosaur eggs and insect cocoons in those eggs to define an important food web in...
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To bee or not to bee?

When the garden is full of bloom, we do not like to think that flowers have an agenda. All their colors and fragrances seem to be displayed merely...
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Superfamily Pentatomoidea – The stink bugs

  • Pentatomoidea
  • May 22, 2011
The insects known more commonly as the stink bugs, shield bugs or chest bugs are all members of the large superfamily Pentomoidea. There are...
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"Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo" on DVD and PBS

Westerners love bugs—dragonflies, butterflies, and ladybugs are frequently scene as elements of home decor, jewelry, and clothing design....
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