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Animals News tagged with insects

Kudzu-Munching Bug Also Threatens US Bean Crops
Animals  (tags: animals, insects, invasive species, humans, environment )

Cal
- 10 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Some might celebrate the arrival of the kudzu-munching bug, which could help control the invasive vine that drapes much of the South. However, the bug also feasts on valuable crops like soybeans and other legumes
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Tiny Insect Brains Solve Big Problems
Animals  (tags: insects, brains, human, faces )

Nancy
- 11 days ago - news.discovery.com
According to a growing number of studies, some insects can count, categorize objects, even recognize human faces -- all with brains the size of pinheads.
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Daddy Longlegs Decline Could Spell Extinction for Golden Plover
Animals  (tags: insects, decline, daddy long legs, birds, impact, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, extinction, wildlife )

Cher
- 247 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Warm summers are wiping out daddy longlegs, which is in turn is having a severe and "worrying" impact on certain bird populations, RSPB warn.
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Killer Bee Attack: Fire-Fighters Save Man With Pressure Hose After He Was Stung Several THOUSAND Times
Animals  (tags: bees, stung, saved, insects, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 248 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
A 53-year-old man is recovering in hospital after being stung 'several thousand times' by a swarm of killer bees.
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Bees Attack, Kill 2 Dogs
Animals  (tags: florida, insects, swarm of bees, kills 2 dogs, sadness, suffering )

Jacquelin
- 256 days ago - justnews.com
DAVIE, Fla. -- Thousands of bees swarmed and killed two dogs outside a South Florida home over the weekend. As many as 60,000 bees came out of a hive, swarming a Davie neighborhood. They attacked Alina Alvarez's 90-pound American bulldog and a 60-pound
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Thousands Of Bees Swarm Woman's Balcony
Animals  (tags: florida, insects, bees, habitat, humans, endangered, protection )

Jacquelin
- 262 days ago - justnews.com
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. -- A Coral Springs woman hopes beekeepers can get rid of thousands of bees that are swarming on her balcony. The woman first noticed the bees gathering just outside her screened-in balcony on the third floor of an apartment building
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Honey Bees Work Together to Make Group Decisions
Animals  (tags: insects, honeybees, working together, group decisions )

Jacquelin
- 285 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Swarms send out groups of 'scout bees' to assess the quality of a potential site for a hive. The insects then report back and do a 'dance' to describe the benefits of the site. The study found the swarm then comes to a group decision on the best site
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Dung Beetles Are Evolving Into Vicious Carnivores, Scientists Find
Animals  (tags: peru, insects, dung beetles, millipeds, carnivores )

Jacquelin
- 311 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Humble dung beetles are evolving into carnivores, according to a study which found them attacking and eating millipedes 10 times their length. Scientists believe it is the first time the scavenger species, which usually feeds on balls of faeces, has been
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Class Bee Drug: Honey Bees Get a Real Buzz as Scientists Give Them Cocaine to See How Their Brain's React
Animals  (tags: insects, bees, cocaine, research, humans, brain )

Jacquelin
- 333 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Scientists are doping up honey bees with cocaine to study how their brain reacts to the drug and possibly find a way to stop addiction in humans. The research found similarities between honey bees and humans, in that they are both are driven by rewards a
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Buzzing Bees Act as 'Bodyguards' to Protect Plants From Other Insects
Animals  (tags: insects, bees, "bodyguards" for plants, environment )

Jacquelin
- 340 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The buzzing of bees is good for plants and flowers because it protects them from being eaten by other insects, scientists have found. The sound scares off caterpillars who would otherwise eat the plants, meaning the bees act as unofficial "bodyguards", ac
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Global Swarming: The Super Ants Ready to Invade Your Garden... 100million at a Time
Animals  (tags: great britan, insects, Lasius neglectus, ants, super ants, invading gardens, 100 million at a time, habitat, environment )

Jacquelin
- 358 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
It lives in super colonies of more than 100million and thrives in the cold. Its name is Lasius neglectus - and it is heading for Britain. Harmless to humans and not very different to look at than our own garden ant, Lasius is nevertheless causing re
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The Life of the Queen Bee
Animals  (tags: animals, insects, nature, environment )

Thc
- 394 days ago - artsonearth.com
With the help of some stunning photography, we take a journey through the life of the queen of the hive. Take a look at an amazing life cycle.
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Giant 'Extinct' British Beetle Found in Gloucestershire
Animals  (tags: giant beetle, discovered, insects, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 505 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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Decline in 'Bee' Could Threaten World's Crops
Animals  (tags: bees, decline, crops, environment, protection, insects, habitat )

Cher
- 512 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  (tags: insects, dung beetles, environment )

Michael
- 518 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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