Spiders can be effective pest control agents.
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Spiders liquefy their prey in order to consume it, and this makes it challenging to determine what spiders eat. A new approach that uses DNA barcoding is helping researchers figure out spider diets.
Eventually weather, pests and disease will take their toll, but the story doesn’t end there.
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Even in death, a tree helps others live.
One distinction between a snail and a slug: The snail has a shell.
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These members of the mollusk family may be slow, small and slimy, but they are an indispensable part of the ecosystem.
The yellowjacket wasp has a reputation as a British picnic invader.
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Think your social life is complicated? Consider the wasp.
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This new study could help researchers understand conditions such as autism and help fight climate change by reducing the carbon footprint of AI.
Are you ready to eat insects?
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To limit our impact on the planet, one solution could be to replace meat with insects. Children could set an example.
Ants from different colonies will fight based on smell alone.
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Researchers explore what happens when ants can’t properly use smell to detect friend from foe.
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Bees and other pollinators are key to food production, but they’re hard to keep an eye on. Now, AI software is helping track these essential farm workers.
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New research from China shows how the loss of insects is destabilising food webs.
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Tinkering around the margins of English farms won’t benefit biodiversity, research suggests.
The coquí frog, Eleutherodactylus coqui , is loud enough to wake people at night.
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From insects to birds to bats to frogs, these little loudmouths have found ingenious ways to deliver their messages at high volume.
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Despite their sharp-looking pincers, earwigs have a reputation for being tender parents.
Niassa Special Reserve in Northern Mozambique’s is just one of the continent’s under-mapped biodiversity areas.
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Huge swathes of Africa remain unstudied and their species undocumented.
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Many gardeners worry these large larvae might damage plants. But before you squish them, read this.
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There would be no life on Earth without invertebrates, but they are understudied and underappreciated. The Bug of the Year competition aims to change that, so have your say and vote!
Scientists fix biologger tags to animals to gain an insight into their movement and behaviour.
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Scientists use biologging devices to track animal behaviour – here are four times where it has improved our understanding of nature.
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Wet weather is great for some species of bugs. But Christmas beetle swarms look to be a thing of the past
Can this dragonfly feel pain?
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In one of the largest studies of its kind we looked at the evidence from over 300 published reports.
Rubber ducky isopod woodlouse. This rare isopod species are located in caves in Thailand.
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Woodlice are everywhere but people don’t like them much. Here’s why they should be more popular.
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DDT accumulates in wildlife and magnifies up the food chain. Birds of prey occupy the top of these food chains in various ecosystems.