I was reading about a newly discovered praying mantis the other day — the kind of thing you stumble on while pretending you’re just “checking the news” — and it turns out one species has solved one of nature’s more awkward problems. Specifically: how not to get eaten immediately after…
Category: Insects
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The Cave Where Every Spider On Earth Apparently Has a Timeshare
I knew before even reading the story that I’d hate it. AP News, via ABC, reported that researchers stumbled into a cave on the Greek-Albanian border and found what’s probably the biggest spider web ever recorded. That one sentence alone made every hair on my arms stand up. Any headline…
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The Bug That Made It Past Customs — Almost
It started with a box of radicchio. One of thousands that pass through the Port of San Luis every week. But this one had a passenger. During a routine inspection, U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s agricultural specialists found something they’d never seen before — a leafhopper called Osbornellus sallus. For…