- For 20+ years, researchers have noticed black widows being displaced by the less venomous brown widow. They thought brown widows were just beating black widows in the hunt for food/habitat/etc. Nope. It turns out aggressive brown widows are actually slaughtering black widows. https://academic.oup.com/aesa/advance-article/doi/10.1093/aesa/saad003/7044733 297 comments science
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- Black Widows Are Losing to Brown Widows in the Fight for Your Attic and Garage - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/13/science/brown-widows-black-widows.html 172 comments
- 'Inert' ingredients in pesticides may be more toxic to bees than scientists thought https://theconversation.com/inert-ingredients-in-pesticides-may-be-more-toxic-to-bees-than-scientists-thought-218005 37 comments
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- How to Develop an Appetite for Insects - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/science/eating-insects-entomophagy.html 7 comments
- More people are eating bugs – but is it ethical to farm insects for food? https://theconversation.com/more-people-are-eating-bugs-but-is-it-ethical-to-farm-insects-for-food-167248 6 comments
- Invasive tawny crazy ants have an intense craving for calcium – with implications for their spread in the US https://theconversation.com/invasive-tawny-crazy-ants-have-an-intense-craving-for-calcium-with-implications-for-their-spread-in-the-us-152652 3 comments
- Fluke Discovery of Ancient Farming Technique Could Stabilize Crop Yields : ScienceAlert https://www.sciencealert.com/fluke-discovery-of-ancient-farming-technique-could-stabilize-crop-yields 1 comment
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- The bizarre and ecologically important hidden lives of mosquitoes https://theconversation.com/the-bizarre-and-ecologically-important-hidden-lives-of-mosquitoes-127599 0 comments
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- High-speed video captures how cannibalistic mosquito larvae snag their prey | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/11/high-speed-video-captures-how-cannibalistic-mosquito-larvae-snag-their-prey/ 0 comments
- Robber flies track their beetle prey using tiny microbursts of movement https://theconversation.com/robber-flies-track-their-beetle-prey-using-tiny-microbursts-of-movement-213200 0 comments