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Stingless bee
Scientists have discovered that bees use more than their stingers to defeat potential attackers. Apparently, they’re perfectly prepared to mummify enemies who can’t be stung.
Continue reading… “Stingless Bees Mumify Attackers That Can’t Be Stung”
The woman who inspired the classic Beatles song Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, has died at aged 46, a charity said today. The song featured on the ground-breaking 1967 album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
John Lennon’s elder son Julian said it was inspired by a picture he drew of his classmate Lucy O’Donnell when they were at a nursery school in Weybridge, Surrey, in 1966.
Seed beetles are polyandrous – females mate with multiple males, and choose which sperm will fertilize their eggs afterward. Scientists long believed they did this to get the best sperm. But a new study shows the fittest males always lose.
Continue reading… “Scientists Cannot Explain Why Female Beetles Mate With Multiple Males”
Why mess around with flying microbots when you can get perfectly good bugs to do the work? That’s what researchers are doing with these cyborg beetles, strapping on six electrodes that might someday turn the lowly insects into eavesdropping, remote-controlled superbugs. Continue reading… “Spyin’ Cyborg Beetles”
Mountain pine beetles appear to be doing more than killing large swaths of forests in the Rocky Mountains. Scientists suspect they are also altering local weather patterns and air quality.