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Ancient, Parasitic Wasp Used Its Rear End Like a Venus Flytrap to Catch Insects and Lay Its Eggs on Them, Study SuggestsAn ancient wasp may have used an odd structure at its rear end to capture insects and lay its eggs on or inside of them, ...
Our most familiar image of the dung beetle shows one of them rolling a finely shaped ball of dung to a hiding place where it ...
I narrate an enquiry from Moses Were a poultry farmer. He narrated on phone that he has been seeing his mother’s rural ...
March fly larvae, which develop underground, are formidable predators. Equipped with venomous fangs, they actively hunt and subdue prey. Many beetle species visit flowers to feed on nectar and pollen, ...
As night falls over Australia’s forests, grasslands and backyards, the hidden world of nocturnal insects stirs to life. In many ecosystems, overall insect activity actually peaks at night, especially ...
Yet some insect larvae are predators, and a small number of these have developed highly efficient imaging systems out of simple stemmata. “The adults and pupae of holometabolan insects — beetles, bees ...
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