thelepidopteragirl: Got around to taking some better photos of...

BABE I ONLY GOT EYESSS FOR YOUUUU Can’t lie that I like bee butts xDthelepidopteragirl: Got...
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Trapped in a nuclear weapon bunker wood ants survive for years in Poland

Having built their nest over the vertical ventilation pipe of an old nuclear weapon bunker in...
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Female mosquitoes can transmit Zika virus to their eggs, offspring

Female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes can pass the Zika virus to their eggs and offspring, new research...
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sinobug: Bombycid Silkmoth (Penicillifera cf. lactea,...

Bombycid Silkmoth (Penicillifera cf. lactea, Bombycidae) Bombycid Silkmoth (Penicillifera cf....
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thebutterflywhisperer: he step

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China's honey bee losses are low compared with West

Since concern about widespread honey bee colony losses began ten years ago, there have been surveys...
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museumwales: Caterpillar of the Sycamore moth, found near the...

museumwales: Caterpillar of the Sycamore moth, found near the Urban Meadow outside the National...
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Mountains

Mountains are in general a much tougher place to life than equivalent lowland habitats, partly due...
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China's honey bee losses are low compared with West

Since concern about widespread honey bee colony losses began ten years ago, there have been surveys...
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sinobug: Day-flying Swallowtail Moth Caterpillar (Epicopeia...

Day-flying Swallowtail Moth Caterpillar (Epicopeia sp., Epicopeiidae) Day-flying Swallowtail Moth...
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A Little Girl Who Got Bullied For Loving Bugs Just Made A Ton Of New Pals

A Little Girl Who Got Bullied For Loving Bugs Just Made A Ton Of New Pals from Nature’s...
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Ent Soc of Canada on Twitter

Ent Soc of Canada on Twitter from Nature’s Incredible! http://ift.tt/2bHyP7E via Nature &...
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Just woke up

vita-insectum: First thing I see is the #BugsR4Girls hashtag on Twitter and I honestly couldn’t be...
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Moth takes advantage of defensive compounds in Physalis fruits

Researchers found that the specialist moth Heliothis subflexa benefits from secondary plant...
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New strategy to fight mosquitoes in a more efficient and sustainable way

Mosquitoes continue to build resistance to existing pesticides. Research has now shown that the...
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A brain circuit to push past nutritional stress

Nutritional stress is a normal part of life; going hungry on a short-term basis generally does not...
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Forest and watercourse interplay important for restorations

Humans utilize forests and watercourses in a way that depletes ecosystem habitats, biodiversity and...
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Progress in vaccination against vespid venom

Especially in late summer, apprehension about wasp stings increases among allergy sufferers....
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Nutrition matters: Stress from migratory beekeeping may be eased by access to food

In the first large-scale and comprehensive study on the impacts of transporting honey bees to...
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Endangered Cuban solenodon evolved after the extinction of dinosaurs

The Caribbean islands form a natural laboratory for the study of evolution due to their unique...
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reanimateobjects: After years of looking, I finally got to see...

reanimateobjects: After years of looking, I finally got to see a dragonfly emerge! I spent several...
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beautymagnified: DSC_5746 (by xxtreme942)

beautymagnified: DSC_5746 (by xxtreme942) from Nature’s Incredible! http://ift.tt/2bfwdgB...
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Crush and Strain Harvest When You Use Foundation

The bees where we poured the nematodes a week ago had honey to harvest. But the frames in the hive...
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'Cyclops' beetles hint at solution to 'chicken-and-egg' problem in novel trait evolution

Beetles with cyclops eyes have given scientists insight into how new traits may evolve through the...
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Beetles pollinated orchids millions of year ago, fossil evidence shows

When most people hear the word ‘pollinator,’ they think of bees and butterflies....
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The Value of a Beekeeping Mentor

When I first started beekeeping, I had many mentors. An Atlanta beekeeper came over pretty close to...
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macrodan: I believe this shiny little bee is a female...

macrodan: I believe this shiny little bee is a female Augochloropsis metallica. It appeared to be...
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Dartford warbler

Dartford Warblers are tiny, secretive birds, often glimpsed darting between bushes on lowland heath....
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Sand lizard

Sand lizards are a particularly rare and protected species in Britain. They’re found only in...
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Lizards

Since emerging from water millions of years ago, lizards have diversified into a weird and wonderful...
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textless: Aphid with mite and crab spider, May 2016.

textless: Aphid with mite and crab spider, May 2016. from Nature’s Incredible!...
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end0skeletal: Ensign Wasp by AlHabshi

end0skeletal: Ensign Wasp by AlHabshi from Nature’s Incredible! http://ift.tt/2b8uWe7...
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fatchance: Small milkweed bug (Lygaeus kalmii) on desert...

fatchance: Small milkweed bug (Lygaeus kalmii) on desert milkweed (Asclepias subulata). This one...
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Insecticide treatment of cattle to kill sand flies and combat leishmaniasis

With an estimated 500,000 human infections and 50,000 deaths annually, visceral leishmaniasis (VL)...
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The battle against aedes aegypti, the mosquito that spreads Zika

The UC Mosquito Research Laboratory in Parlier is the epicenter of California research on the Aedes...
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Sulfoxaflor found to be less harmful to insect predators than broad-spectrum insecticides

The selective insecticide sulfoxaflor is just as effective at controlling soybean aphids (Aphis...
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fungusqueen: garden caterpillar

fungusqueen: garden caterpillar from Nature’s Incredible! http://ift.tt/2b2k3aM via Nature...
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Cultivating soybeans to combat the kudzu bug

A few strains of wild soy are able to fight the kudzu bug by limiting the ability of its nymphs, or...
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sinobug: Nature’s Showgirls Ricanid Planthopper Nymphs...

Ricanid Planthopper Nymph (Ricaniidae) Ricanid Planthopper Nymph (Ricaniidae) Ricanid Planthopper...
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Neonicotinoid insecticides linked to wild bee decline across England

Exposure to neonicotinoid seed treated oilseed rape crops has been linked to long-term population...
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Wordless Wednesday: If They Were All Like This

If all ants were alone on leaves at eye level and posing, there would be more photographs of...
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Neonicotinoid insecticides linked to wild bee decline across England

Exposure to neonicotinoid seed treated oilseed rape crops has been linked to long-term population...
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ru-debega: One of my mantises, Xia Lang, had an accident and mismolted. She was lying on the floor...

ru-debega: One of my mantises, Xia Lang, had an accident and mismolted. She was lying on the floor...
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Luna moth's long tail could confuse bat sonar through its twist

A detailed look at how sound waves bounce off a flying moth’s body offers new clues for how its...
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Tropical sea urchins caught between a rock and a hot place

The balmy waters of the Caribbean could turn into a deadly heat trap for countless tiny creatures....
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A very hungry caterpillar: Researchers sequence genome of 'gluttonous' tobacco hornworm

The genome of the tobacco hornworm – an important model of insect biology – has now been...
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Tropical sea urchins caught between a rock and a hot place

The balmy waters of the Caribbean could turn into a deadly heat trap for countless tiny creatures....
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Luna moth's long tail could confuse bat sonar through its twist

A detailed look at how sound waves bounce off a flying moth’s body offers new clues for how its...
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Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs were the dominant land animals for 160 million years, making them one of the most...
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A very hungry caterpillar: Researchers sequence genome of 'gluttonous' tobacco hornworm

The genome of the tobacco hornworm – an important model of insect biology – has now been...
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kittendrumstick: A few more, including some close-ups! And more...

kittendrumstick: A few more, including some close-ups! And more photos of that pretty male...
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Hey there! What are the malaise traps used for?

Malaise traps are used to catch insects that can’t be caught with nets normally and also to sample...
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coolbugs: Bug of the Day Absolutely gorgeous One-lined Zale...

coolbugs: Bug of the Day Absolutely gorgeous One-lined Zale (Zale unilineata) that showed up at the...
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Bug collecting: Mapping North American groups of plant-feeding insects

Amateur and professional entomologists are experts at their own version of Pokémon Go. After all,...
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Wildlife-friendly farming shown to benefit UK moths

Wildlife-friendly farming schemes can help boost the abundance of many UK moth species, a new study...
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fatchance: Antipodean oddities: Giant starfish plant...

fatchance: Antipodean oddities: Giant starfish plant (Stapelia gigantea), a native of southern...
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Surveys of corn, soybean fields reveal implications for pollinator conservation

What kind of insect pollinators are commonly found in corn and soybean fields? The answer to that...
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Photo

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Breakthrough in combating malaria with odor-baited trap for mosquitoes

The use of a newly-developed mosquito trap incorporating human odor has resulted in a 70 percent...
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Stress bites! Researchers study mosquito/bird interactions

When researchers investigated how the stress hormone, corticosterone, affects how birds cope with...
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jtotheizzoe: Inside the World of Fire Ants If you LOVE fire...

jtotheizzoe: Inside the World of Fire Ants  If you LOVE fire ants, you’re gonna love this week’s...
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Cardinals may be shielding Atlanta residents from West Nile virus, study finds

A bird species that does a poor job spreading West Nile virus but is particularly likely to get...
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Applying Nematodes to Get Rid of Small Hive Beetle

In the middle of May, I was contacted by someone who had bought a house about 20 minutes from me....
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sinobug: MOTHS from Pu'er, Yunnan, China Click images for...

Leaf Moth (Epaena sp., Thyrididae) Chalcosiine Day-flying Moth (Pidorus albifascia, Chalcosiinae,...
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Looking different to your parents can be an evolutionary advantage, at least in plants

Looking different to your parents can provide species with a way to escape evolutionary dead ends,...
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Looking different to your parents can be an evolutionary advantage, at least in plants

Looking different to your parents can provide species with a way to escape evolutionary dead ends,...
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coolbugs: Bug of the Day Here’s a bonus BotD (since I missed...

coolbugs: Bug of the Day Here’s a bonus BotD (since I missed yesterday)… Check out this AMAZING...
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Green and sweet: How plant sugars influence malaria transmission

Female mosquitoes are well known blood-feeders, but they also consume sugar sources such as nectar,...
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rosemarydanielis: The tiniest magical creature came to visit me...

rosemarydanielis: The tiniest magical creature came to visit me today :) from Nature’s...
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Photo

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buggirl: The harlequin bugs love the bladder pod in my Uni’s...

buggirl: The harlequin bugs love the bladder pod in my Uni’s botanical gardens. from...
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coolbugs: Bug of the Day Man, the moths have really been...

coolbugs: Bug of the Day Man, the moths have really been showing off at the lights lately. Check...
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Radar tracking reveals the 'life stories' of bumblebees as they forage for food

Scientists have tracked the flight paths of a group of bumblebees throughout their entire lives to...
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Spider sharing isn't always caring: Colonies die when arachnids overshare food

Spiders living together in colonies of tens of thousands can go extinct from sharing food equitably,...
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Lab-reared maggots may save Darwin's famous finches

Researchers reveal how they used chicken blood to rear larvae of the fly Philornis downsi, an...
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Insect tibias are best suited for jumping and other emergency behaviors

Insect tibias are best suited to withstand the high stress of emergency behaviors rather than the...
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Asian giant honeybees may move in synchrony to ventilate nests

The Asian giant honeybee, Apis dorsata, builds its large single-comb nests out in the open, making...
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How an enzyme in fireflies, click beetles and glow worms yields different colors

The glow of fireflies at dusk is a welcome sign of summer. The same enzyme that helps give these...
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thesummerofmoths: Cecropia Moth

thesummerofmoths: Cecropia Moth from Nature’s Incredible! http://ift.tt/2azzclx via Nature...
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Mantis shrimp use UV color spots, chemical cues to size up opponents

Mantis shrimp, often brightly colored and fiercely aggressive sea creatures with outsized strength,...
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Rich bugs revealed: Homes in wealthier neighborhoods host a greater diversity of insects

Researchers are looking beyond homes’ nooks and crannies to consider the socioeconomic context...
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New ant species Paratopula bauhinia (Golden Tree Ant) discovered

A research group has described and named a new species of ant from Hong Kong, Paratopula bauhinia,...
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Researchers identify how queen bees repress workers' fertility

Researchers have discovered the molecular mechanism by which queen honeybees carefully control...
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sinobug: Assassin Bug Nymph (Reduviidae) by Sinobug...

sinobug: Assassin Bug Nymph (Reduviidae) by Sinobug (itchydogimages) on Flickr. Pu’er, Yunnan,...
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colinhuttonphotography: Chalcid wasp - Conura sp. by Colin...

colinhuttonphotography: Chalcid wasp - Conura sp. by Colin Hutton from Nature’s...
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New strategies against mosquitoes and other pests

South America is fighting a battle against tiger mosquitoes that transmit yellow fever, dengue fever...
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Heating the exterior of suitcases may decrease the spread of bed bugs through luggage

New research indicates that brief heat treatment is a promising way to decrease the spread of bed...
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