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Researchers from Penn State University have published a detailed description of how flying insects land upside-down, in order to lay down a benchmark that...
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The newly discovered species of beetle has been named Nelloptodes gretae (the family Ptiliidae), drawing on the Swedish teenage environmental activist’s first name. The...
World
Growing population rates are presenting a challenge for humanity. We already use 70 percent of agricultural land to raise livestock; the oceans are overfished;...
Life
The main areas affected are in Germany (particularly the western Ruhr region) and the Netherlands, although other parts of Europe are also affected, with...
World
For almost 30 years they passed as quirky eccentrics, diligently setting up their insect traps in the Rhine countryside to collect tens of millions...
World
The new data comes from the University of Maryland, and it finds a 40.7 percent decrease in honeybee colonies, based on figures relating to...
Tech & Science
It’s a popular idea, often repeated in the media and movies, that cockroaches could survive a nuclear disaster. The ‘myth’ seems to derive from...
World
Over 40 percent of insect species could become extinct in the next few decades, according to the “Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review...
Tech & Science
Such a micro-sensor has been devised by researchers from University of Washington and tests demonstrate that the tiny sensor package is capable of recording...
World
In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic University and the Universidad Nacional...