Harvesting Insects Can Help in World Food Crisis
"It doesn't take long for a food crisis to scar a generation of children with long-lasting brain and physical damage. It is urgent people get access to essential proteins, and one source that can help in...
The Evolution of Plant Minds
I was listening this past weekend to an NPR story about the history of chewing gum (see http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106439600&ft=1&f=1032). ...
Butterflies can trick ants into raising them
The European butterfly Maculina rebeli has learned to raise its young as parasites, so that ants will be tricked into feeding them and giving them special treatment. They give off a scent that mimics the ants so...
New Jungles Prompt a Debate on Rain Forests
If this is a world wide trendit will be good for the future health of the environment. "These new “secondary” forests are emerging in Latin America, Asia and other tropical regions at such a fast pace that the...
Ants restrained from undesired reproduction by peers
Normally worker ants are not supposed to mate. Their job is to build a hive and care for the hive queen’s offspring instead. But a new study showed that when worker ants actually break the taboo and reproduce,...
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