Post Views: 2,620 Cockroaches, termites and mantis, despite obvious morphological and behavioural differences, share a common ancestor and belong to the order Dictyoptera. The small
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The power of the Cataglyphs of the desert
Post Views: 2,144 Desert ants of the species Cataglyphis bombycina live in environments with extreme temperature conditions. In the middle of the day, despite an
Mechanisms at the origin of defensive spraying in beetle bombers
Post Views: 1,769 Threatened, the bombardier beetles spray from their abdomen an irritating defensive liquid by a succession of very fast jets. This phenomenon begins
Insect wings are also gyroscopes!
Post Views: 1,222 Insects have flying capabilities far beyond what robotics engineers can produce. However, the control of manoeuvres and posture during the flight remains
Revision of lepidopteran (butterfly) phylogeny
Post Views: 2,594 The discovery of a new lepidopteran family, unpublished since the 1970s, was made with the capture of a small butterfly on “Kangaroo
New evolutionary history of the European cicadas
Post Views: 3,370 The international team led by the Swiss Professor Peter Nagel and the doctoral student Thomas Hertach have just published in the journal
Hatching of a gynandromorph butterfly (male/female)
Post Views: 2,626 At the Academy of Natural Sciences of the University of Drexel (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), a strange butterfly of the species Lexias pardalis emerged
Discovery on the symbiotic adaptation between the mushroom ants and their fungus
Post Views: 1,807 An interesting discovery about the mutual relations between the leaf-cutting ants (“mushroomists”) and the mushrooms they cultivate has just been published in
New Phylogeny of insect evolution established
Post Views: 2,191 A new international team of researchers has just established a new phylogeny* of insects that can trace the evolutionary history of different
Acoustic mimicry of butterflies in anthills
Post Views: 1,162 Discovery of an acoustic mimicry used by the caterpillars of a butterfly to deceive ants and obtain food and care essential to
