Showing posts with label #Insects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #Insects. Show all posts
Friday, February 28, 2020

China Is Not Sending Ducks to Eat Pakistan’s Locusts

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Ugandan farmers are worried about the locusts spreading (via Edward Echwalu/Guardian) No, China is not sending an army of ducks to defeat ...
Sunday, February 23, 2020

Extreme locust plague shown swarming Kenya in new video

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No, these aren’t fields blossoming with yellow flowers. It’s a swarm of ravenous locusts.  A biologist at Penn State University, David Hug...
Monday, February 10, 2020

Zoo will name a rat or roach after your ex and feed it to a snake on Valentine

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The San Antonio Zoo in Texas has a special offer for Valentine’s Day. For $25 it will name a pre-frozen rodent after your ex and feed it ...
Friday, February 7, 2020

Climate Change Pushing Bumblebees to Extinction

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(via Tim Hill/Pixabay) Bumblebee species are declining in Asia, Europe, and North America. A new study from the University of Ottawa fou...
Sunday, February 2, 2020

Second person linked to butterfly sanctuary found dead in Mexico

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Activists fear criminal gangs and illegal loggers involved in deaths Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mexico-bu...
Thursday, January 23, 2020

Monster mosquito: Argentinian man stunned as GIANT insect flies through his window

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An Argentinian man took to Twitter to share a disturbing image of an unusually massive-looking mosquito after it flew through his window an...
Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Un-BEE-lievable! Swarm of invading bees forces footballers to dive for cover in Tanzania (VIDEO)

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Players in the game between Young Africans and Iringa United were forced to dive for cover after an unusually large swarm of bees invaded a...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

I Have to Tell You Something Very Important About Honeybees

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I simply must inform you of this crucial bee fact: When bees get trapped in water, they use their wings as hydrofoils to surf back to the ...
Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Brain-damaging infectious disease spread by ticks reaches UK for first time

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Public Health England investigating how common infected arachnids might be Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/tick-borne-...
Thursday, October 10, 2019

Natural ‘bumblebee medicine’ found in heather

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Preserving heather in the natural landscape could have benefits for wild bees, say scientists. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scienc...
Monday, September 16, 2019

Epic Dragonfly Swarms Appear on Weather Radars in 3 States

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Massive swarms of migrating dragonflies are so large they’re appearing on weather radar (via Florian van Duyn/Unsplash) It’s a bird! It’s ...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Clothes lined with graphene could prevent mosquito bites, study shows

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Super strong material blocks chemical signals in sweat that encourage blood-sucking insects to bite Source: https://www.independent.co.u...
Friday, August 23, 2019

Watch: Doctors Find Brown Recluse Spider in Woman’s Ear

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A Missouri woman who thought she had water in her ear was told by doctors they found a brown recluse spider instead. (Photo Credit: benjami...
Saturday, August 3, 2019

Millions of painted lady butterflies seen across UK in once-in-a-decade phenomenon

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Warm weather, plentiful food supplies and good wind conditions on migration north bring bumper arrival Source: https://www.independent.c...
Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Mosquitos Are Spreading a Rare, Brain-Infecting Virus in Florida

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One of the most dangerous but thankfully rare mosquitoborne diseases has been spotted again in Florida, state health officials say. Accordi...
Saturday, July 27, 2019

Las Vegas is Literally Crawling with Grasshoppers

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As cool as it’d be to report that a swarm of locusts has descended upon Sin City like some kind of biblical retribution straight out of Exo...
Saturday, July 20, 2019

Man with irritated eye goes to doctor and has tick pulled out

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Tick made ‘little popping sound’ as it was pulled from his eyeball Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tick-eye-do...
Monday, July 8, 2019

The Meat-Allergy Tick Also Carries a Mystery Killer Virus

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A tick best known for making people allergic to red meat can also infect its victims with the deadly Bourbon virus. Source: https://www....
Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Cockroaches have evolved to become almost impossible to kill with chemicals, scientists say

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‘We didn’t have a clue that something like that could happen this fast,’ says study author Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/sc...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

United Airlines flight overrun by ants

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Woman live tweets creepy-crawly invasion Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/united-airlines-ants-flight-newark...