Life
Weird caterpillar uses its old heads to make an elaborate hat
Meet the mad hatterpillar, the invertebrate that keeps its old moulted heads attached to its body to make a beautifully bizarre headpiece
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Health
Chronic Lyme disease: How one tick bite can ruin your health forever
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Environment
Reports of an insect apocalypse are overblown but still concerning
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Life
Wasps may benefit us as much as bees. Could we learn to love them?
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Life
Bacteria sacrifice themselves when under attack to save their colonies
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Wasps
Life
This desert ant can run at the equivalent of 600 kilometres per hour
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Life
Earliest known cave-dwelling animal is a 99-million-year-old cockroach
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Life
Cretaceous insect discovered with extremely weird antennae
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Life
Hundreds of millions of locusts are forming swarms bigger than cities
The worst invasion by desert locusts in decades has hit Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia. The swarms are destroying crops and could cost millions of dollars to contain
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Environment
Unusual cyclones over past two years created Africa’s locust plague
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Humans
Martin Rees: Humanity’s future – predictions for the next century
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Life
Ants trapped for years in old Soviet nuclear bunker became cannibals
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