The West Nile Virus Has Caused The First Death Of 2017 North Dakota's State Health Department has confirmed

Aggressive Parasitoid Wasps Will Soon Wage War On Emerald Ash Borers The emerald ash borer has been mentioned before. These bugs are invasive to the United States, and they are continuing to move from state to state. Ash borers can destroy ash trees in no time at all. Some state forestry officials are clueless as to how these insects could be eradicated, but officials in the state of Wisconsin are putting a bold eradication plan into action. The plan involves releasing aggressive insects

Chinese Man Stumbles Across One of the Rarest Spiders on Earth! Have you ever thought about what you would do if you came across an endangered and almost mythical spider in your backyard? Would you send it to researchers to preserve and help us understand more about it, or would you decide to try and sell it on Ebay after finding out how much money it is worth? One man in China was faced with this dilemma when he came across a rare spider crawling about on his orange field. When he discovered just how rare this spider is he decided that science and the bugs can just go to hell. He was going to sell it to the highest bidder. When Li Wenhua found a spider on his orange field in Chengdu, southwest China that had a strange disc shape on its belly, he originally thought he had discovered an antique before it started moving and he realized it was actually a living creature. He decided to snap a picture of the bizarre looking creature and do a little searching on the Internet to find out exactly what he had found. It turns out that the spider is an extremely rare spider known as the "Chinese hourglass spider," which has only been spied a total of six different times since it was re-discovered in 2000

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Researchers Change An Ants Social Behaviors After Altering Its DNA Ants are well known eusocial insects. Their colonies operate with an efficiency that makes humans look lazy by comparison. So how do ants communicate in order to assign particular tasks to particular ants? Does ant communication operate beyond human perception? Sure, there are workers, soldiers, and queens, but colony cooperation, and many group efforts that ants aim to achieve depend on some ants doing very specific things. Can ants get sick of their jobs and just quit? What would happen if an individual ant went out on its own to explore the world, leaving the colony behind? Well, if you know much about ants, then you should know that they cannot survive well on their own. In fact, an ant without its colony, is a dead ant. Recently, a study aimed to show what would happen if one particular ant could not behave properly within their colonies. What they found would likely not surprise you, as insects are cruel creatures. A group of morbidly curious researchers from Rockefeller University altered an ants genetic makeup in order to ultimately change its behavior

We all know that termites go after wood, and the wood in your home is certainly no exception. But are there many other commonly used materials within homes that are susceptible to termite damage? Unfortunately, there are many home construction materials that termites will attack, and this goes for construction materials that do not contain wood. For example, pest control professionals and handymen alike have both taken note of termite damage to laminate flooring

Butterflies And Bees Can Be Brave Creatures Have you ever heard the term "crocodile tears" and wondered if crocodiles really shed tears. Well, apparently this is not just another nonsense saying, as it turns out that crocodiles really to shed tears. But who knows why? Maybe when a crocodile's brother dies, or when a crocodile stubs its toe really badly. Speculation aside, there have been very few, yet reliable, reports of butterflies and bees landing on crocodiles' noses. These particularly brave bees and butterflies don't just land on the noses of crocodiles either. In fact, the two flying insects sit their for a while relaxing as if they owned the noses of all crocodiles. Of course, there is one more surprising observation related to this bizarre behavior, and it has to do with the insects feeding

Termites Are The Oldest And Most Fierce Of All Eusocial Insects There are many modern similarities between termites and ants. People often have a difficult time telling the two insects apart. This is no small wonder to entomologists since ants and termites likely interacted during the course of evolution. Termites are one hundred million years old, whereas ants are ninety nine million years old. It turns out that a one million year difference in evolutionary development makes a big difference when it comes to predator-prey relations. By the time ants arrived on the scene, termites were ready to battle