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Posted by kittymowmow in Animals, Creepy Crawlies, Food, Science & Tech, Wildlife on 05 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Communal Stomach Of An Ant Colony

Communal Stomach Of An Ant Colony
photo credit: Axel Rouvin How do ant colonies manage the nutrients in their food? Audrey Dussutour from the Centre de recherche sur la cognition animale (CNRS/Université Paul Sabatier) and Steve Simpson from Sydney University have shown that an ant colony functions like a “collective mouth and gut”....
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Posted by kittymowmow in Animals, Business, Creepy Crawlies, Farm & Ranch, Wildlife on 03 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Olive Groves May Be Rescued By Helpful Wasp

Olive Groves May Be Rescued By Helpful Wasp
photo credit: Opo Terser Olives basking in sunny California groves might find that their new best friend is a small brown wasp. Known to scientists as Psyttalia cf. concolor, the little wasp can help foil the olive fruit fly, a powerful natural enemy of olives. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) entomologist...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Conservation, Creepy Crawlies, Museums, Science & Tech, Wildlife on 03 5th, 2009 | No Comments

Butterfly’s mustache gives it away as a new species

Butterfly’s mustache gives it away as a new species
After nearly a century in the Natural History Museum collections, a new butterfly species has been discovered because of its mustache. A new butterfly species from the dry Magdalena valleys of Colombia has been discovered among the three million butterfly specimens at the Natural History Museum in London...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Creepy Crawlies, Science & Tech, Wildlife on 01 29th, 2009 | No Comments

Honey Bees Can Tell The Difference Between Different Numbers At A Glance

The remarkable honey bee can tell the difference between different numbers at a glance. A fresh, astonishing revelation about the 'numeracy' of insects has emerged from new research by an international team of scientists from The Vision Centre, in Australia. In an exquisitely designed experiment, researchers...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Creepy Crawlies, Evolution, Reptiles & Amphibians, Science & Tech, Wildlife on 01 27th, 2009 | No Comments

Evolution In Action: Native U.S. Lizards Are Adapting To Escape Attacks By Fire Ants

Penn State Assistant Professor of Biology Tracy Langkilde has shown that native fence lizards in the southeastern United States are adapting to potentially fatal invasive fire-ant attacks by developing behaviors that enable them to escape from the ants, as well as by developing longer hind legs, which...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Creepy Crawlies, Science & Tech on 01 20th, 2009 | No Comments

When It Comes To Sleep Research, Fruit Flies And People Make Unlikely Bedfellows

You may never hear fruit flies snore, but rest assured that when you're asleep they are too. According to research published in the January 2009 issue of the journal Genetics scientists from the University of Missouri-Kansas City have shown that the circadian rhythms (sleep/wake cycles) of fruit flies...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Creepy Crawlies, Culture, Movies, Science & Tech on 01 13th, 2009 | No Comments

How Cheating Ants Give Themselves Away

In ant society, workers normally give up reproducing themselves to care for their queen's offspring, who are their brothers and sisters. When workers try to cheat and have their own kids in the queen's presence, their peers swiftly attack and physically restrain them from reproducing. Now, a new study...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Creepy Crawlies, Science & Tech on 01 5th, 2009 | No Comments

Honey Bees On Cocaine Dance More, Changing Ideas About The Insect Brain

In a study that challenges current ideas about the insect brain, researchers have found that honey bees on cocaine tend to exaggerate. Normally, foraging honey bees alert their comrades to potential food sources only when they've found high quality nectar or pollen, and only when the hive is in need....
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Posted by kittymowmow in Conservation, Creepy Crawlies, Evolution on 12 3rd, 2008 | No Comments

Imitation Is Not Just Flattery For Amazon Butterfly Species

Many studies of evolution focus on the benefits to the individual of competing successfully – those who survive produce the most offspring, in Darwin's classic 'survival of the fittest'. But how does this translate to the evolution of species? A new article considers an aspect of the natural world...
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Posted by Tyler Quattlebaum in Creepy Crawlies, Evolution on 10 30th, 2008 | No Comments

Vampire Moth Discovered — Evolution at Work

A previously unknown population of vampire moths has been found in Siberia. And in a twist worthy of a Halloween horror movie, entomologists say the bloodsuckers may have evolved from a purely fruit-eating species. Only slight variations in wing patterns distinguish the Russian population from a widely...
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