Archive for July 2016
A Caterpillar That Uses The Skulls Of Its Enemies As A Shield
There are some pretty hardcore animals in this world, but I have never heard of an animal that wears bones on its body. Except, of course, for the Uraba Lugens, a type of caterpillar that, at some point, discovered that wearing the bones of dead insects would work as an effective method of self-defense. This…
Read MoreThe Male Horsefly Can Catch Pellets Shot From Guns
A man by the name of Jerry Butler, an entomologist, somehow managed to get a male Horsefly to fly after a pellet shot from a pellet gun. Amazingly the Horsefly was able to catch up to the pellet after it was shot from a gun. The pellet was traveling at 145 kilometers per hour, which…
Read MoreInsects With Super Long Lives
Most insects do not live past a year, and there are plenty that do not make it past a couple of weeks. However, there are some insects that can live for decades. For example, the queens that belong to certain insect colonies can live for up to sixty years. The Cicada insect can live for…
Read MoreHorses No Longer Have to Contend with Flying Pests with the Weatherbeeta Supa Fly Insect Shield
If you are at all familiar with riding and tending horses, then you know that flies absolutely love to torture these poor animals, buzzing around their heads, biting their sensitive noses and eyes, and swarming so heavily around their faces that I sometimes wonder how they can see through all those bodies. Anytime I’ve seen…
Read MoreCockroaches Use GPS
Well not exactly like the electronic GPS that we are all aware of, but cockroaches do have a sophisticated internal mechanism that allows them to navigate your home. Researchers placed cockroaches inside of a maze similar to the classic experiments that used rats to navigate mazes. Once the roaches moved through the maze the researchers…
Read MoreThe Miraculous Eyesight Of The Jumping Spider
A Jumping Spider is not your typical spider. For one thing they are not in need of web-building to catch their prey. In fact, the majority of spiders that do rely on web-spinning to catch prey only rely on the web because web-spinning spiders lack the necessary visual acuity to spontaneously pounce onto their prey…
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