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Blue wings give morpho dragonflies stealth capabilities

The way light reflects off morpho dragonflies’ bright blue wings helps the insects blend in with water when viewed from above, making them invisible to predators and prey

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Raspy cricket

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Australian raspy cricket has the strongest bite of 650 insect species

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A worker bee is attacking a newly emerged queen

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Some bee colonies have to kill thousands of ‘selfish’ wannabe queens

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Beet armyworm / Small mottled willow (Spodoptera exigua) moth on Cotton (Gossypium sp) flower bud.

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Destructive pest moth stripped of sex appeal by gene editing

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Robotic dog

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Artificial insect-inspired ‘brain’ can guide robotic dog through maze

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Red postman butterfly on a leaf

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Some female butterflies can see an extra ultraviolet colour

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LED streetlight, England, UK

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Caterpillar populations decline 50 per cent in areas with streetlights

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physical forces acting in soil

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Ants use soil physics to excavate metre-long tunnels that last decades

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Termite gut microbes can help turn toxic wood into biofuels

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Termite gut microbes can help turn toxic wood into biofuels

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Essential oils help to stop invasive beetles from eating palm trees

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Essential oils help to stop invasive beetles from eating palm trees

Red palm weevils are invasive insects known for damaging palm trees – affecting the date, coconut and palm oil industries – but a bit of clove or thyme oil reduced the amount of palm stems they ate by 35 per cent

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Lubricant found in a beetle's leg is more slippery than Teflon

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Male dragonflies may become less colourful as the climate warms

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Aquatic beetle caught walking upside down on the undersurface of water

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Ancient beetle species discovered in 230-million-year-old reptile dung

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