Humans
Bug Out review: A $50,000 insect heist gets the Tiger King treatment
A true-crime series on IMDb TV takes a slightly too po-faced look into a theft from an invertebrate zoo where things weren't quite as they seemed
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Life
Blue wings give morpho dragonflies stealth capabilities
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Life
Australian raspy cricket has the strongest bite of 650 insect species
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Life
Some bee colonies have to kill thousands of ‘selfish’ wannabe queens
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Destructive pest moth stripped of sex appeal by gene editing
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Technology
Artificial insect-inspired ‘brain’ can guide robotic dog through maze
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Life
Some female butterflies can see an extra ultraviolet colour
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Life
Caterpillar populations decline 50 per cent in areas with streetlights
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Life
Ants use soil physics to excavate metre-long tunnels that last decades
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Environment
Termite gut microbes can help turn toxic wood into biofuels
Microbes isolated from the stomachs of termites can decontaminate timber that has been treated with toxic preservatives, enabling it to be converted into biofuels more easily
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Life
Essential oils help to stop invasive beetles from eating palm trees
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Lubricant found in a beetle’s leg is more slippery than Teflon
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Life
Male dragonflies may become less colourful as the climate warms
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Life
Aquatic beetle caught walking upside down on the undersurface of water
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