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Tag: insects

 

Study Finds 25 Percent of World’s Mammals at Risk of Extinction

Michael Krebs Region: United States

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) unveiled a dark new study today, detailing the potential permanent demise of 1,141 of the 5,487 mammals on earth.  If the findings in the IUCN Red List of Th... more

Views: 1656
 

Swarms of Ants Bedevil Houston

Betty McMahon Region: Texas

A few years ago, some creatures about the size of a grain of rice, caught a ride on a cargo ship docked in one of the Caribbean ports and disembarked, unnoticed, at the port of Houston, Texas. Their adopted home was so hos... more

Views: 2000
 

Orchids Use Wasps for One Night Stands

David Brant Region: Australia

"Male pollinators can prefer orchids to real females, prematurely end a copulation with a real female to visit an orchid, or be unable to find real female mates among false orchid signals. Unquestionably, producing sperm, ... more

Views: 2176
 

How Malaria Was Spread in South America?

Multiple News Region: California

Scientists have long debated how and where it originated malaria infection caused by a parasite transmitted by the bite of a mosquito. Now an international team of scientists seems to have found the answer. Genetic a... more

Views: 1150
 

Why Some People Attract Mosquitoes More?

Multiple News Region: Australia

In our skin billion live bacteria, organized in various communities and families. And it is this organization that determines how humans are attractive to mosquitoes. According to new research in the Netherlands, who ha... more

Views: 1592




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