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Ants first farmed well before humans

Mongabay.com 24 Mar 2008

DEET repellent works by blocking human odor from mosquitoes

Mongabay.com 13 Mar 2008

Photos: Caterpillar transforms from mimicking bird droppings to a leaf

Mongabay.com 21 Feb 2008

Global warming to increase insect attacks on plants

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2008

To reproduce, parasite transforms ant into juicy red berry

Rhett A. Butler 17 Jan 2008

Disappearance of elephants, giraffes causes ecological chain reaction

Mongabay.com 10 Jan 2008

Butterfly tricks ants into caring for its young

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Jan 2008

Beetle droppings help forests recover from fire

Bev Betkowski 4 Dec 2007

Termites may produce cleaner biofuels

Mongabay.com 23 Nov 2007

Billions of disappearing bees linked to virus

Mongabay.com 6 Sep 2007

Stopping malaria using smell

Vanderbilt University 31 Aug 2007

Orchids may have co-existed with dinosaurs

Mongabay.com 29 Aug 2007

Flies prefer Coke

University Of California - Berkeley 29 Aug 2007

Vampire bats invade Finland thanks to global warming

Mongabay.com 4 Jun 2007

conservation biology needs to be accessible to the masses

Mongabay.com 31 May 2007

Army ants form living pothole plugs to speed up delivery

University Of Bristol 27 May 2007

20-40% of U.S. bees have disappeared

Mongabay.com 14 May 2007

Mosquitoes are evolving in response to global warming

University Of Oregon 23 Apr 2007

Tear-sucking moth in Madagascar feeds on bird eyes

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Apr 2007

Antarctic insects make natural anti-freeze to survive cold

Mongabay.com 2 Apr 2007

Insects cultivate antibiotic-producing bacteria in their antennae

Society For Experimental Biology 1 Apr 2007

Detecting poisons in nectar is an odour-ous task for honeybees

Society For Experimental Biology 1 Apr 2007

Ladybugs ruin good wine

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Mar 2007

Invasive species is pestering Europe’s rich

Mongabay.com 24 Mar 2007

Termites can make ethanol

Mongabay.com 6 Mar 2007

Two new species of eyeless albino millipede found in Arizona

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2007

Mysterious outbreak killing millions of bees

Mongabay.com 14 Feb 2007

Female butterflies become more promiscuous when males are scarce

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2007

Biomimicry of beetle could produce whiter teeth

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Jan 2007

Leaf-mimicking insects at least 47 million years old

Mongabay.com 25 Dec 2006

Small insects tell us Earth is warming

Mongabay.com 11 Dec 2006

Invasive ants use genetic differences to distinguish friend from foe

Argentine Ants Territorial When Neighbors Are Not Kin University Of California 1 Dec 2006

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