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When They Hear Plants Crying, Moths Make a Decision

Plants emit ultrasonic clicks when stressed, and some moths interpret these sounds to decide where to lay their eggs.

On a wing and a prayer: the hidden beauty of insect's flight in pictures

Xavi Bou highlights the hidden beauty of insects while advocating for their essential role in ecosystems amidst significant population declines.

When They Hear Plants Crying, Moths Make a Decision

Plants emit ultrasonic clicks when stressed, and some moths interpret these sounds to decide where to lay their eggs.

On a wing and a prayer: the hidden beauty of insect's flight in pictures

Xavi Bou highlights the hidden beauty of insects while advocating for their essential role in ecosystems amidst significant population declines.
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Insects Are More Than Just Pesky Pests

Insects profoundly influence human culture, behavior, and science, establishing a crucial relationship between humans and these often-overlooked organisms.

Police investigating after insects released at LGB Alliance event

Police investigate after live insects were released to disrupt LGB Alliance conference, highlighting ongoing tensions between trans rights activists and the organization.

5 Creepy Creatures Out to Suck Your Blood | KQED

Mosquitoes are the deadliest animals, killing hundreds of thousands yearly through disease transmission, particularly affecting vulnerable populations.

This Mite-y Beetle Buries the Dead to Start a Family | KQED

Carrion beetles play a vital role in recycling nutrients by preparing carcasses for their offspring's food.

Opinion | In a Brutal Summer, Miracles Still Bloom

Drought and extreme heat create emotional and physical longing for cooler conditions, reflecting a deeper madness in nature.
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Forget the moths that eat your clothes. Most are beautiful and deserve to be loved | Tim Blackburn

Moths are essential and beautiful creatures, deserving appreciation despite negative perceptions, especially considering only a tiny percentage damage clothes.

Beware the Toxic and Explosive Blue Backpack This Termite Carries

Neocapritermes taracua termites sacrifice themselves by releasing toxic foam to protect their colony from invaders.

Insects: Why we can't live without them DW 07/29/2024

More than half of a German supermarket's products rely on insects for existence.
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June 16: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

Cicadas infested Long Island in 1919 causing devastation, revealing their life cycle, predators, and impact on vegetation.

The 'Unthinkable' New Reality About Bedbugs

The resurgence of bedbugs in 50 countries since the late 1990s has brought an added twist: the appearance of tropical bedbugs in temperate regions.
Tropical bedbugs, like the common bedbugs, have become resistant to many standard pesticides, making them difficult to eliminate.

June 16: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

Cicadas infested Long Island in 1919 causing devastation, revealing their life cycle, predators, and impact on vegetation.

The 'Unthinkable' New Reality About Bedbugs

The resurgence of bedbugs in 50 countries since the late 1990s has brought an added twist: the appearance of tropical bedbugs in temperate regions.
Tropical bedbugs, like the common bedbugs, have become resistant to many standard pesticides, making them difficult to eliminate.
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Long-held belief that bugs are attracted to light disproved in new study

Flying bugs are not actually attracted to light, contrary to popular belief.
Insects are confused by artificial lights and turn their backs to them, mistaking them for the sky.
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Why Insects Are Attracted to Light at Night

Artificial light confuses insects and causes them to fly in circles
Previous hypotheses about insect behavior around lights have not provided concrete proof

Why do moths fly in circles around a light? They can't tell 'up' from 'down'

Artificial light can interfere with insects' ability to determine what direction is 'up' while flying.
Insects instinctively turn their backs to light and try to fly so that their back is always facing the light source.

The origin of a fatal attraction: Why mosquitoes and moths fly around light bulbs

Flying insects are attracted to artificial light sources.
Artificial light can cause flying insects to lose their orientation and flight stability.

Why Insects Are Attracted to Light at Night

Artificial light confuses insects and causes them to fly in circles
Previous hypotheses about insect behavior around lights have not provided concrete proof

Why do moths fly in circles around a light? They can't tell 'up' from 'down'

Artificial light can interfere with insects' ability to determine what direction is 'up' while flying.
Insects instinctively turn their backs to light and try to fly so that their back is always facing the light source.

The origin of a fatal attraction: Why mosquitoes and moths fly around light bulbs

Flying insects are attracted to artificial light sources.
Artificial light can cause flying insects to lose their orientation and flight stability.
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Daily briefing: Tiny fork fern has the biggest genome ever found

A species of fork fern, Tmesipteris oblanceolata, has the biggest genome ever recorded with 160 billion base pairs.

Climate crisis has impact on insects' colours and sex lives, study finds

Darker insects better at mating in cold weather due to quicker warm-up abilities, impacted by climate change. Insects losing identification colors leading to potential mating challenges in warming temperatures.
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