Tagalo mantis manillensis

Wally SuarezAugust 22, 2019

Mantids, some would argue, represent the highest pinnacle of insect predatory body plan. With extremely good eyesight perched on a rotating head and a pronotum... Read More...

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Bees atop Georgia university building will be research focus

AuthorAugust 7, 2019

VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) — Nearly 100,000 bees have found a new home on the rooftop of a campus building at a south Georgia university. Researchers at Valdosta St... Read More...

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Jellyfish the size of a human found by divers off Cornish coast

Maxine LagmanJuly 17, 2019

Divers were stunned to see a giant jellyfish the size of a human off the coast of south-western England. The jellyfish was thought to be a barrel jellyfish.... Read More...

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Spiders have “little paws” you didn’t know about

Maxine LagmanJuly 8, 2019

Many people suffer from arachnophobia, which is the fear of spiders. This goes after seeing spiders crawling with their hairy spindly legs. However, many pe... Read More...

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Here’s why cockroaches can survive just about anything

AuthorJuly 4, 2019

The genome of the American cockroach has been sequenced for the first time, revealing why these creepy-crawlies are such tenacious survivors. The roach (Per... Read More...

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If you haven’t heard, cockroaches are ‘closer to invincibility,’ scientists warn

Maxine LagmanJuly 4, 2019

We can all agree that cockroaches are scary as they are and the flying ones definitely cause fear and panic. We thought that would be all they are, but scienti... Read More...

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Rock-eating worm that excretes sand discovered in Bohol

AuthorJune 21, 2019

A new subspecies of worm that eats stone and excretes it as sand has been discovered by scientists at the bottom of a river in the Philippines. The worms f... Read More...

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About 20,000 bees swarmed a car for two days to rescue their queen trapped inside

Maxine LagmanJune 20, 2019

Carol Howarth was just about to do some shopping in the town of Haverfordwest, Wales. It looked like a normal day as she parked her car. Little did she know, t... Read More...

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Feeding wood beetles wriggling worms will make them better recyclers

AuthorJune 7, 2019

For horned passalus beetles, having wriggly nematode larvae inside their bodies will actually benefit them and the forests they live in, according to Science N... Read More...

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The Mindoro giant millipede

Wally SuarezMay 25, 2019

Apart from phasmids, perhaps one of the more underrepresented of the local invertebrate subcultures is that dealing with millipedes, an anomaly possibly attrib... Read More...

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