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Colorado potato beetle

Life

Hibernating beetles break down and regrow their muscles on demand

Colorado potato beetles lose almost all the mitochondria in their muscles during hibernation, but regrow them in time to start flying in the spring

News

Paper wasp on a flower

Life

Wasps can grasp abstract concepts such as 'same' and 'different'

News

Life

Parasitic wasps released in orchards to control crop-eating stink bug

News

C22PRK Monarch butterfly Overwinter site Pacific Grove California

Life

Monarch butterflies are doing surprisingly well in North America

News

Incisitermes schwarzi

Life

Termites spread globally by crossing the oceans on driftwood rafts

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Young wasps routinely eat their own siblings in the nest

Life

Young wasps routinely eat their own siblings in the nest

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dragonfly migrant hawker (Aeshna mixta) in flight; Shutterstock ID 1891950238; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

Life

How dragonflies use ultrafast wing movements to flip over in flight

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An ant applying medical treatment to another ant with an injured leg

Life

Ants treat infected wounds of nestmates with medicine from their back

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Insects on Car Number Plate

Environment

Flying insects splatting on cars have dropped by 60 per cent in UK

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Idea leuconoe butterfly

Environment

Climate change and farming may have halved some insect populations

Warmer temperatures and intense agriculture may be responsible for a 49 per cent decline in insect numbers in some areas, with the tropics worst hit

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Life

Releasing sterile male fruit flies in fields cuts crop damage by 90%

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Life

Female wētā insects have two sets of genitals and eat male ejaculate

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Life

Butterfly survival reduced by warmer and longer autumns

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Humans

Bug Out review: A $50,000 insect heist gets the Tiger King treatment

Culture