Jumping beans, which are really seed pods with twitchy moth larvae inside, hop around in a way that — if they live long enough — is guaranteed to eventually land them in the shade, ...

"Rather, Mexican jumping beans use a strategy that minimizes the chances of never finding shade when shade is sparse." DOI: Physical Review E, 2023. 10.1103/PhysRevE.107.014609 ( About DOIs ).

So the moth larvae in Mexican jumping beans jump to change their climate, and the ones in tamboti fruit jump to escape from their seedpods. These two behaviors, similar in form but different in ...

I love Mexican jumping beans. They're a bit cruel—capturing a growing larva and making it dance could be bad for your karma—but they're so cool. What is ...

Mexican jumping beans are sold as toys, something you might buy on vacation at the boardwalk, but they're actually seeds infected with the larvae of little white moths.

Mexican jumping beans are sold as toys, something you might buy on vacation at the boardwalk, but they're actually seeds infected with the larvae of little white moths.

Jumping beans have been available in the United States since the 1940s, when some say that a 12-year-old boy in Alamos, Mexico, got the idea to start selling them in novelty shops.

Children have played with Mexican jumping beans for more than 60 years. You can learn more about these unique beans by using a heat lamp. STEP 2: Shine the heat lamp on the beans. What happens?

JOHOR BARU: A new “pet craze” – jumping beans – is taking the city by storm. The “pet,” which has been banned by the authorities in Singapore in fear of its threat to the environment ...

THE curious movements of jumping beans have lately attracted some attention, though to style the spasmodic jerks of the beans jumps is to court disappointment. Some “jumping cocoons ...