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 Animals  Cher - 88 days ago - wildlifeextra.com An amazing giant insect, thought to be extinct in the UK, has been discovered on a pavement in Ashchurch, Gloucestershire. The Capricorn Beetle was found by John Hawkins, who handed it over to the Tewkesbury Council Environmental Health Department.
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 Animals Cher - 95 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com Scientists have said that a decline in bee biodiversity might spell trouble for crop producers as their differences are crucial to the maintenance of the world's crops.
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Praise the Humble Dung Beetle
Animals  Michael - 101 days ago - newsweek.com Nothing against polar bears, but dung beetles, whose disappearance would leave less of a void in our heart than the polar bear's but would rip a bigger hole in the web of life. Without the dung beetles animal droppings would not get rolled up and buried
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 Animals Cher - 108 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com The list of the International Institute for Species Exploration's (IISE's) top ten new species of 2007, which was released in May 2008.
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 Animals Cher - 144 days ago - news.aol.com In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers.
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 Animals Cher - 147 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com Afghan authorities are examining the extent of an unprecedented locust infestation that has prompted local officials in some areas to offer wheat as a reward to residents for killing the insects.
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 Animals  Jacquelin - 153 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk Many tropical insects face extinction by the end of this century unless they adapt to the rising global temperatures predicted, US scientists have said.
Researchers led by the University of Washington said insects in the tropics were much more sensiti
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 Animals Jacquelin - 153 days ago - canada.com WASHINGTON - Air pollution interferes with the ability of bees and other insects to follow the scent of flowers to their source, undermining the essential process of pollination, a study by three University of Virginia researchers suggests.
Their findi
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 Animals Jacquelin - 158 days ago - foxnews.com Orchids may be enthralling to humans, but our love of these flowers only goes so far.
Some wasps, on the other hand, find orchids so enchanting that they sexually climax while visiting them.
The discovery sheds new light on the extremes to which flo
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 Animals Jacquelin - 159 days ago - news.com.au FINDING fire ants has just become a rewarding business.
In a last ditch attempt to wipe out the damaging pests, the State Government is offering a $500 reward to anyone who finds a fire ant nest.
Australia is the first country to come close to eradi
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 Animals  Terrah - 166 days ago - telegraph.co.uk Dragonflies are sun-lovers and normally the more southerly species, which are not equipped to deal with lower temperatures further north, would stay put. But warmer temperatures are encouraging them to chance their luck further afield.
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 Animals Terrah - 195 days ago - shop.therainforestsite.com Monarch butterflies travel thousands of miles each year to "overwinter" in the forests of sunny Mexico. The forests provide unique conditions which enable these gorgeous creatures to survive in freezing temperatures and conserve energy...
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 Animals Cher - 203 days ago - pantagraph.com Twin City native Brian Fisher is an entomologist. Make that ant-omologist. He's traveled to remote places around the globe to identify and study about 800 new species of the insect in the past 25 years.
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 Animals Cher - 203 days ago - environmentalgraffiti.com For many people, insects are extremely frightening. myself have different fears, but I completely understand the terror that shoots up your spine when a spider darts unexpectedly across your skin. That's not to say I'm not frightened by insects at all,
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 Animals Jacquelin - 218 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk Bats use the same aerodynamic mechanism as insects to hover in one place, scientists have found.
Writing in Science, they said that as the animal flapped its wings downwards, the motion created a tiny cyclone of air known as a "leading edge vortex".
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