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      Chimpanzees are capable of responding to wounds in inventive and sometimes cooperative ways. 
    
 
            
    
      
        
         
            
              It can be hard to distinguish between a wild and a managed honeybee.
             
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      The wild cousins of beehive honeybees are disappearing – here’s why that matters. 
    
 
            
    
      
        
         
            
              Madagascan sunset moth (Chrysiridia rhipheus ).
             
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      With the warmer weather come more of these fluttering insects – which can be easily confused with each other. 
    
 
            
    
      
        
         
            
              Colorado’s $3.9 billion wine industry is threatened by a tiny aphid.
             
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      Phylloxera is an aphidlike pest that kills grapevines. 
    
 
            
    
      
        
         
            
              Tawny Coster (Acraea terpsicore ) butterflies.
             
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      The lack of data about insect life in Australia is already having consequences for plants, animals, and even people. 
    
 
            
    
      
        
         
            
              What do you look like to a fly?
             
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      Flies see things differently. 
    
 
            
    
      
        
         
            
              The Iberian harvester ant is able to give birth to ants from two different species.
             
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      One ant mother raises two species under the same roof. 
    
 
            
    
      
        
         
            
              Colorful gardens can be pollinator-friendly with native flowering plants.
             
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      Uniquely colored flowers with big blooms might make for an aesthetically pleasing garden, but they can be unhelpful to pollinators. Careful consideration can help you plan a colorful and eco-friendly garden. 
    
 
            
    
      
        
         
            
              A biologist maintains a large population of black soldier flies for protein farming.
             
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      Considering how easily bird flu swept through chicken farms, it’s clear that domestication has downsides. Lessons from the past paired with modern genomic technology can help with farming insects. 
    
 
            
    
      
        
         
            
              
             
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      Not only are weaver ants not plagued by a drop in teamwork efficiency, but they’re actually ‘superefficient’. 
    
 
            
    
      
        
         
            
              The common earwig.
             
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      Cool autumns and dry springs could help earwig populations recover. 
    
 
            
    
      
        
         
            
              Wasps get a hankering for jam once the colony larvae pupate.
             
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      Did you know wasps switch from ham to jam foraging during the late summer? 
    
 
            
    
      
        
         
            
              
             
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      Ants may be tiny – but by working together they build complex societies and solve many problems. They might even teach humans a thing or two? 
    
 
            
    
      
        
         
            
              A red admiral butterfly slurping nectar from a sedum plant.
             
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      Following on from ‘the year without a butterfly’, 2025 has seen sightings soar in the UK and across Europe. 
    
 
            
    
      
        
         
            
              Adult spotted lanternflies infest areas of Pennsylvania from July to December.
             
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      An entomologist describes how the sap-sucking insects can weaken grapevines and reduce fruit yield and quality. 
    
 
            
    
      
        
         
            
              
             
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      Australia’s iconic bogong moths are the first creatures other than humans and some birds known to navigate by the night sky. 
    
 
            
    
      
        
         
            
              
             
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      Bites and stings can have different symptoms, and may require treatment to prevent complications. 
    
 
            
    
      
        
         
            
              Moths are attracted to lights, which gives entomologists an opportunity to study them.
             
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      Miller moths migrate through the state every summer and are sometimes considered to be a pest. 
    
 
            
    
      
        
         
            
              A “zombie” snail infected with a flatworm.
             
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      Parasites do creatively gruesome things to their host. 
    
 
            
    
      
        
         
            
              Sick animals often move to warmer places to raise their body temperature.
             
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      Fever isn’t necessarily a bad thing − it’s actually a useful response to infections.