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Fungus May Be The Answer To Ending Insect-Borne Disease Brian Lovett, a Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland, College Park, recently won the Fungal Biology and Biotechnology prize for his work on using fungi as a control method for…

Communication by “Head-butt” Like all animals bees must communicate with their own kind, but do they have to be so violent about it?  Researchers have observed that, along with other methods of communication, bees will gladly head-butt other bees if…

A Promising Hope for Green Insecticides You may not know that Stink-Bugs and their evolutionary cousins the Harlequin bugs (also stinky) are responsible for significant damage to large commercial crops.  The good news is scientists may have figured a way…

An Insect That Can Run Itself Blind It is very good for us that we do not serve as prey for the Tiger Beetle.  The Tiger Beatle is a very impressive insect most of all because it is the fastest…

More Money Sucked Up By Bedbugs I explained just a few ways that bedbugs can hurt your bank account in my last post, but I didn’t even get through half of them. A bedbug infestation can be one of the…

The Zika Virus Enters the Presidential Campaign The worry over the possible spread of the Zika virus to the United States this summer has now crossed over into the sphere of the presidential campaigns. Hillary Clinton responded to a question…

Insect Homosexuality: Accident or Foul Play? Yep, you probably already knew that homosexuality existed among animals in the wild, and now I can confirm your suspicions that insects do it too. Homosexual intercourse is actually not that uncommon in the…

The time of reckoning is approaching fast. The summer is almost upon us, and experts predict that the warm weather and moisture from the spring rains are going to bring out hordes of mosquitos, including the Aedes aegypti mosquito that…

Bug Predators Just like people, some of the insect out in the world don’t conform to the usual standards of the bugs we’re familiar with. There our outcast insects out in the world that dance to the beat of a…

Female Insect Has Built-In Sperm Donors The cottony cushion scale insect has developed an interesting way to make the male members of the species obsolete. Some female cottony cushion scales have developed the ability to fertilize their own eggs, removing…