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Despite what you might say when drunk, you’re not the best backflipper in the world. That honor belongs to a tiny little bug called a globular springtail, whose superfast backflips have now been caught on slow-motion camera for the first time.Continue … Continue reading Super-slo-mo video captures the sickest backflips in the animal kingdom
Despite what you might say when drunk, you’re not the best backflipper in the world. That honor belongs to a tiny little bug called a globular springtail, whose superfast backflips have now been caught on slow-motion camera for the first time.Continue … Continue reading Super-slo-mo video captures the sickest backflips in the animal kingdom
Some species have an incredible knack for hacking others to get what they want. Scientists have now discovered a fascinating new example – some spiders have been seen manipulating fireflies’ flashes to attract more bugs to their webs.Continue ReadingCa… Continue reading Spiders hack fireflies to attract more food to their webs
Mosquitoes are masters of evasion when indoors, seemingly disappearing after you unsuccessfully try to swat them or grab them out of the air. That’s where the Bzigo Iris comes in, as it tracks them and shows you where they are.Continue ReadingCategory:… Continue reading Mosquitoes can fly but they can’t hide from the Bzigo Iris
“We can feed black soldier flies straight, dirty trash,” says a team that’s working to turn insects into landfill-clearing biomanufacturing machines that turn regular, dangerous or contaminated garbage into a range of high-value products.Continue Readi… Continue reading Insects as biofactories: Turning dangerous waste into valuable products
Tiny aerial drones have many potential uses, but their ability to navigate is severely limited by their minuscule amount of onboard processing power. Scientists have now set about addressing that limitation, taking a cue from foraging insects such as a… Continue reading Record-setting drone utilizes ant-inspired smarts to make its way home
This enormous and important part of the animal kingdom may not be most people’s favorite, but insects are a diverse, resilient and ancient bunch that date back almost 400 million years. But because of their size, many of us don’t really get a chance to… Continue reading Otherworldly: Incredible images from the insect photography awards
In a world first, scientists have discovered that painted lady butterflies (Vanessa cardui) have used favorable winds and a strategy of active flying and autopilot to fly across the world without stops, covering at least 4,200 km (2,600 miles). They be… Continue reading Butterfly takes epic 2,600-mile transatlantic flight, stuns scientists
Regardless of what you may think of insects – if you even think about them at all – they make up around 90% of animal species on the planet and without them we’d see the collapse of ocean and land ecosystems that could ultimately lead to the end of all… Continue reading The sky-high mountain superhighway used by billions of tiny travelers
When it comes to protein sources that are more eco-friendly than traditional livestock, two of the most promising candidates are insects and microalgae. Scientists have now devised a method of using waste from the former as food for the latter.Continue… Continue reading Protein-rich microalgae is cooked up by some unlikely wild chefs