Animals Library: insects

Showing posts with label insects. Show all posts

Moth that Looks Like A Poodle Baffles The Internet

Pictures of a mysterious creature that looks like a cross between a moth and poodle recently went viral on the Web, with some people turning these pictures into memes, only increasing their popularity. The creature is called a Venezuelan poodle moth, and because of how peculiar it looks, plenty of questions revolve around whether it’s real or not.Fortunately, the poodle moths are 100 percent real, and are possibly a new species of moth identified a few years ago. In 2009, Kyrgyzstan-based biologist Dr. Arthur Anker discovered the moths in Venezuela’s Gran Sabanaarea. The species seems to be r

{[['

']]}

Butterfly HD Wallpapers

{[['

']]}

Fruit Flies Who Do It More Live Longer

You know what they say about how doing the deed regularly prolongs your lifespan? Well, the jury’s probably out as far as the effects of frequent sex for humans go, but when it comes to fruit flies, that adage is very likely to be true.A new study from researchers at the University of Michigan shows that fruit flies that had more sex enjoyed better health, and get this, longer lives.In fact, male fruit flies that perceived the pheromones of female flies, without mating, saw significant reductions in fat stores, resistance to hunger, and more stress. In short, these sexually frustrated were mi

{[['

']]}

Corpse-eating flies thought to be extinct are back, and hungry

Behold the bone-skipper, high in the running for the strangest fly on Earth. For the bone-skipper, fresh carcasses just won't do. No, these flies prefer large, dead bodies in advanced stages of decay. And unlike most flies, they are active in early winter, from November to January, usually after dark.They also disappeared from human notice and were declared extinct for more than a century. That's why they've often been considered almost mythical or legendary, said Pierfilippo Cerretti, a researcher at the Sapienza University of Rome.Source: Here

{[['

']]}

Butterfly decline a worrying portent

Butterflies are the essence of cool in the insect world, a favorite muse for poets and songwriters who hold them up as symbols of love, beauty, transformation and good fortune.But providing good fortune apparently goes only one way. As humans rip apart woods and meadows for housing developments and insecticide-soaked lawns, butterflies across the US are disappearing.Source: Here

{[['

']]}

Spider webs more effective at snaring electrically charged insects

The positive charge on an insect such as a bee or fly attracts the web, which is normally negatively or neutrally charged, increasing the chances that an insect flying by will contact and stick to the web, said UC Berkeley post-doctoral fellow Victor Manuel Ortega-Jimenez. He also suspects that light, flexible spider silk, the kind used for making the spirals built on top of the stiffer silk that forms the spokes of a web, may have developed because it more easily deforms in the wind and the presence of electrostatic charges to aid prey capture.Source: Here

{[['

']]}

Bee Navigation Revealed

“We're the only ones who make honey, pollinate flowers, and dress like this!” This famous line of Barry B. Benson from the Bee Movie helped us change everything we think about bees. The story’s morale proves that even the smallest and seemingly insignificant creature can make one heck of a difference this world. However, there’s another breakthrough discovery that scientists have discovered about bees. Far from its 2007 movie adaptation when those bees navigated like crazy, these social insects that live in hives actually navigate through a hit and miss kind of maneuvering. Bees can fly at ab

{[['

']]}

Insects and Arachnids as Pets

When talking about exotic pets, insects and arachnids are among the most often mentioned, with spiders generally at the top of most “most exotic pets” lists.Often kept in enclosures, insects and spiders are relatively easy to keep as pets, not demanding when it comes to space, generally not all that picky when it comes to food, as well as not necessarily needy when regular baths or frequent clean up is being talked about.Insects and spiders also don’t require that much interaction or attention from owners, unlike cats or dogs. In fact, they’re known to generally fair better without any social

{[['

']]}

Animals Library

Moth that Looks Like A Poodle Baffles The Internet

Butterfly HD Wallpapers

Fruit Flies Who Do It More Live Longer

Corpse-eating flies thought to be extinct are back, and hungry

Butterfly decline a worrying portent

Spider webs more effective at snaring electrically charged insects

Bee Navigation Revealed

Insects and Arachnids as Pets

Blog Archive

Labels

Popular Posts