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During fall many people will rack the leaves from their yard into a bag, but Jay Watson, a Terrestrial insect ecologist with ...

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New research suggests insects may experience emotion-like states, showing stress responses and even exhibiting pessimism or ...

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Nothing beats a crackling fire, but there are downsides to storing firewood on your property. This is how to store firewood ...

A health inspector reported seeing flying insects and finding food kept at the wrong temperature at a Fredericksburg ...

Cocooned ants infected with a deadly fungus call on workers to kill them to protect the colony—the first example of altruistic disease signaling in social insects.

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To a human, microplastics are very small at less than 5 millimeters (mm) wide. But to an insect, microplastics might be the ...