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Franklin County Area Expects More Stink Bugs

Bonita Wauls can't control the stink bugs on her front porch. Wauls says "They're bigger and feistier than the first year, they're bolder." Trying common bug traps like fly paper, she had said that "they're so...

created by LarryDeezell | 12 wks ago
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An Egyptian Uses Insects To Determine Time of Death!

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An Egyptian Uses Insects To Determine Time of Death!

"They call it Forensic Entomology, where forensics refers to the determination of the cause, location and time of death and Entomology is the study of insects.Forensic Entomology uses insects to help law...

created by stvalentine | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Robot Roaches in Seduction Mode

This is why science is so cool. Robot cockroaches infiltrating a bug community and then getting the bugs to do stuff."This experiment in bug peer pressure combined entomology, robotics and the study of ways that...

created by Jordan Yerman | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Roaches, get your roaches here! 25 cents a piece!

How many roaches have you squashed in your life? I know I've manhandled a few of those scurrying little suckers in my time, but maybe I should have just caught them instead. Because now, I could make a pretty...

created by mardoux | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Mysterious Disease Is Killing Our Honeybees

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Mysterious Disease Is Killing Our Honeybees

"Scientists are reporting a dramatic loss of honeybee colonies. Some beekeepers say they're losing 20 percent of their bees, others say half, some say 80 percent. They open the hives to find the bees dead, or...

created by steve468 | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Nest-casting: shaped voids in a soil matrix

In the Fall of 2001, Cabinet Magazine introduced us to Walter Tschinkel, a professor of entomology at Florida State University. Tschinkel "has been making plaster casts of ant nests since 1982, when he first heard of the strength of orthodontic plaster. The painstaking...