Displaying items by tag: Insect
Saturday, 26 December 2009 20:24
More insect breeding found due to warming temperatures
A U.S. study of moths and butterflies in Central Europe found that many of the species studied have produced an extra generation in the summers due to prolonged warming of the region.
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Thursday, 07 May 2009 17:49
Cool looking beetle named for Stephen Colbert
Only a few weeks ago Stephen Colbert, of Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” had a high-tech, space-orbiting treadmill named for him on the Space Station. Now, two American scientists have named a diving beetle for him. What is way cooler than that?
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Wednesday, 01 April 2009 19:29
Biologists boast: Bad bed bugs benign
According to research into the possibility that bed bugs transmit diseases to humans, Mississippi state researchers didn’t find it to be so, based on past scientific studies and research.
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 20:47
Ants should be behind the wheel of our cars
A German study found that ants are much better at keeping traffic flowing without congestion than us human drivers. We might be much better off with driving advice from our little friends.
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Energy
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Monday, 25 August 2008 19:03
Mosquitoes don't like smell of DEET, states U.S. study
U.S. entomologists find that mosquitoes are very sensitive to DEET (N,N-Diethyl-meta-toluamide), the active ingredient in many insect repellents. The surprising information is likely to help prevent diseases being spread worldwide by mosquitoes.
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Health
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Friday, 16 May 2008 21:45
Rasberry, we have a problem: Exterminator saves NASA from crazy ants
The Texas Gulf Coast in the United States is being invaded by tiny, hairy, long-legged, reddish ants. They are called Crazy Rasberry ants after the exterminator who first battled them and the “crazy” way they run.
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