Tag: Insects

Harvard University is creating robotic insects to monitor the environment

RoboBees are being made at Harvard’s Wyss Institute. They can be used for environmental monitoring, search and rescue, and crop pollination. Read more: FACEBOOK: TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:

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How Do Insects Poop?

Insects go to the bathroom too, but are they as clean as us humans? Dr. Kiki on : Check out her website: Read More: Insect physiology Ants Maintain ‘Toilets’ in …

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Marcel Dicke: Why not eat insects?

Marcel Dicke makes an appetizing case for adding insects to everyone’s diet. His message to squeamish chefs and foodies: delicacies like locusts and caterpillars compete with meat in flavor, nutrition …

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Cyborg insects

Read more: Watch some cyborg insects that are being developed and see a robot controlled by a moth.

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How flesh-eating pitcher plants trap insects

The Pitcher plant is a carnivore that uses water to make more effective insect traps.

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Insects & Bugs : How Do Fruit Flies Grow?

Fruit flies grow through a process called metamorphosis, beginning as an egg, hatching into a larva, turning into a pupa and finally becoming an adult fruit fly. Discover the fruit …

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Insects & Bugs : How Does a Bee Fly?

A bee is able to fly by beating their wings at a tremendous speed, which allows them to simply hover or to move through space. Get more information about a …

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Microsoft Cloud helps researchers turn tiny insects into big data

Microsoft and its partners are using smart traps to capture mosquitoes and sequence their DNA to fight disease. With the Microsoft Cloud, what used to take 30 days now takes …

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Microsoft Cloud helps turn insects into field biologists

The Microsoft Cloud helps Microsoft researchers and their partners study the blood insects collect from the animals they bite to understand how pathogens spread and someday hope to stop outbreaks …

Dung beetles: The only galloping insects

All insects walk the same way - except for three species of dung beetle, which have been caught galloping, very slowly Read more:

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