Analyzing 20 million recorded mosquito flight paths revealed the mathematical rules behind how these tiny predators move and zero in on their human targets.
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Next time you’re outside, say a silent thanks for the many unsung insect pollinators helping to keep our ecosystems healthy.
The waggle dance is performed by forager bees to convey important information about food sources.
Honeybees possess one of the most complex examples of nonhuman communication. New research suggests that it is learned and culturally passed down from older to younger bees.
We attached tiny transmitters to a number of individual moths and tracked a part of their migration using a Cessna aircraft.
The son of a formerly enslaved mother, Charles Henry Turner was the first to discover that bees and other insects have the ability to modify their behavior based on experience.
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