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Bugs, Brains and Trivia
No detail is too small for students at the Linnaean games, an annual national insect trivia competition
November 17, 2008 |
By Abigail Tucker
Insect Trivia
Test your insect knowledge by answering these trivia questions
November 17, 2008 |
By Abigail Tucker / University of Maryland Linnaean Games Team
Termite Bellies and Biofuels
Scientist Falk Warnecke's research into termite digestion may hold solutions to our energy crisis
August 01, 2008 |
By Julia Olmstead
Spin Cycle
Silkworm farming, or sericulture, was a backbreaking job that often required the participation of entire families
July 2008 |
By Peter Ross Range
Interview: May Berenbaum
On the role of cellphones, pesticides and alien abductions in the honeybee crisis
June 2007 |
By David Zax
Your Branch or Mine?
Fireflies' come-hither signals are being decoded by penlight-wielding biologists who've found treachery, also, in the summer-night flashes
June 2005 |
By Jessica Gorman
Net Gains
A California biologist discovered a new insect species and then caught evolution in the act
October 2002 |
By Deborah Franklin
Small Matters
Millions of years ago, leafcutter ants learned to grow fungi. But how? And why? And what do they have to teach us?
May 2002 |
By Douglas Foster
Dragonfly Dramas
Desert Whitetails and Flame Skimmers cavort in the sinkholes of New Mexico's Bitter Lake Refuge
January 2002 |
By Jake Page
Around the Mall and Beyond
Plant and the butterflies will come: this summer the Smithsonian's new garden welcomes its winged visitors
August 1995 |
By Michael Kernan
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