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How to make a zombie cockroach : Nature News

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:42:06 +0000

"Researchers discover how wasps' venom makes roaches their slaves."

Tags: #biology #cockroaches #insects #toxins #wasps #zombies

Pink bug taken in lower corner of michigan - Amblycorypha - BugGuide.Net

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 17:14:22 +0000

"I have never seen a bug in Michigan of this color."

Tags: #insects #michigan #odd #pink

mayfly swarm - Google Image Search

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:53:39 +0000

Includes weather radar images of Michigan, near where I grew up in Algonac.

Tags: #algonac #detroit #insects #mayflies #michigan #radar #swarm #via:we3bus

JS Online:Radar image has some bugs in it, literally

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:41:21 +0000

"The bugs were so thick that they showed up as a rainstorm of mayflies on National Weather Service radar."

Tags: #bugs #fishflies #insects #mayflies #mississippi

The Wisdom of Parasites. The Loom: A blog about life, past and future

Fri, 03 Feb 2006 15:15:10 +0000

Attack of the Pod Roaches

Tags: #biology #cogsci #insects #neuroscience

New Scientist Breaking News - Mosquitoes are drawn to people with malaria

Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:07:21 +0000

"Mosquitoes are more attracted to people already infected with malaria. And this appears to be because the malarial parasite orchestrates its own onward transmission from within the human body, a new study suggests."

Tags: #biology #disease #evolution #health #insects #medicine

Praying Mantis Eats Hummingbird (Bird Watcher's Digest)

Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:37:12 +0000

"I have read that hummingbirds had no natural enemies–so much for that theory!"

Tags: #birds #insects #nature #yikes