The natural world is teeming with examples of cooperation between parasites and the organisms they infect. At times, the merger can be beneficial to both species, and this appears to be the case when caterpillars are infected by parasitic worms too. It would seem that, when the worms infect particular species of cate... |
4 January 2011
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Who would have thought that caterpillars can whistle, but according to a new research they do, and scientists explained that the squeaks they let out protect them from attacking birds.The whistle of a caterpillar is slightly different than a human's, since caterpillars don't have lips, but they manage to ma... |
10 December 2010
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Biologists have known for a long time that moths in the genus Hyposmocom, based in Hawaii, were a bit different from other insects of their kind. One of the species in this genus, for example, produces caterpillars that have taken a liking in attacking and eating tree snails. In addition to being a lot larger than th... |
23 March 2010
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University of Arizona researchers managed to demonstrate for the first time that even insects have the ability to self-medicate, as in to consume various compounds found in plants or other places, in order to rid themselves of infections, parasites, bacteria or other “health issues.” The experiments, cond... |
14 March 2009
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Exotic foods are all the rage these days, with people looking to bring a little adventure into their culinary worlds via a series of spices and herbs that don't exactly grow in our back gardens. Our tendency towards the new, the fashionable and the exotic is also reflected in the unusual (sometimes downright ala... |
2 June 2008
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