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Breeding Blood-Sucking Maggots to Save Galapagos Finches
You would think that breeding and raising blood-sucking maggots might not be the best way to preserve an acutely endangered species, but a …
Newsweek: “Why some insects have an arsenal of tricks to pretend be dangerous”
A recent article on Newsweek,written by Christopher Hassall, a lecturer in animal biology at University of Leeds, and originally published in The Conversation, highlighted research into hoverflies, or Syrphidae, …
An Import-ant Model of Addiction
In a step towards better understanding drug abuse and modeling epidemics such as the opioid crisis that has swept over America, researchers have induced a …
Bark Beetles and Drought Don’t Mix
We’ve all heard news about the drought in California, but have you ever stopped to wonder about the effects of insects on the drought? The …
Cyborg bugs are real
I remember reading a book in elementary school that was about a mad-scientist-esque girl who turns a swarm of cockroaches into an army of microchipped …
Communicating with fireflies
Link to the source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/science/how-to-talk-to-fireflies.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FInsects&action=click&contentCollection=science®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=10&pgtype=collection&_r=0 The news about an insect that I read is an article published in The New York Times. In the …
The Invasion of Crazy Ants
Crazy Ants As a typical Rice student traversing campus between classes, work, and various commitments, it is not uncommon for me to walk by many …
The Tomato-eating Moth
The New York Times recently published an article about Tuta absoluta, the tomato leafminer, an invasive moth from Chile that has been a huge pest …
An Ant-imate Bug Encounter
After a lengthy wait in line for a basket of tortilla chips, I seated myself at an outside picnic table and eagerly awaited my order …