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It could be useful for small-scale robots and prosthetics
Well, that's one way to last forever, I guess.
In the end, it didn’t live up to the name!
The camera needs to be extremely light so an insect can carry it.
It helps disperse heat and reflect sunlight.
This is the earliest known physical evidence of insect pollination.
Some were named after Star Wars characters or Asterix & Obelix.
This master of deception adapts its pheromones to the local bee species, and it's deadly effective!
It's 20 times whiter than paper.
Sometimes not tidying up can be a good thing.
The dung beetle is an extreme survivor. Not only does it feed on poop, but it also fashions a hefty ball out of it, up to 50 times its own mass, that it rolls through the scorching desert. We’re talking 60 degrees Celsius here. A new study that has closely followed this truly remarkable creature […]
It’s not only tigers, corals and other known and liked animals that are close to extinction: beetles have it rough too. In what is now a desperate effort to save the declining number of one beetle species, the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service has issued a proposal on Tuesday suggesting that the Coral Pink […]
Long before humans were even thinking about developing the nut and bolt mechanism for screwing one thing to another, mother nature had it all planned and implemented, in this weevil from Papua which attaches their legs to their bodies instead of the old fashion ball-and-socket joint. Weevils in Papua Weevils are beetles from the Curculionoidea […]
