Insect News: Page 11

Caterpillars Seen Forming Caravan to Find Pupation Site (December 15, 2012): Here is a video of a lengthy caterpillar caravan.

Termite Mounds Can Help Reveal Location of Gold Deposits (December 11, 2012): New research conducted by CSIRO indicates that ant and termite mounds can provide evidence of gold located deep beneath them.

Video: Ultramicroscope Creates High-Resolution 3D Images of the Insides of a Fly (December 6, 2012): Scientists at the Vienna University of Technology have developed laser optics which support high-resolution 3D microscopy.

Pygmy Mole Crickets Leap From the Surface of Water Using Paddles on Their Hind Legs (December 4, 2012): Pygmy mole crickets have the remarkable ability to jump right from the surface of the water.

Mosquitoes Fail in Heavy Fog Say Scientists (November 28, 2012): Mosquitoes have the ability to survive impacts with raindrops that are much heavier than they are.

Leggiest Millipede Has 750 Legs, Lives Near Silicon Valley (November 15, 2012): The leggiest animal in the world, the millipede Illacme plenipes, has 750 legs.

New Beetles Discovered on Mont Tohiea and Mont Mauru in French Polynesia (October 10, 2012): New species of beetles have been discovered on Mont Tohiea and Mont Mauru in the Society Islands in French Polynesia.

Scientists Use CT Scans to Reconstruct 300 Million Year Old Insects (September 26, 2012): Scientists used a CT scanner to reconstruct 305-million-year old insects.

Rasberry Crazy Ants, Known to Damage Electronics, Identified as Nylanderia Fulva (September 23, 2012): The Rasberry Crazy Ant has been officially identified as Nylanderia fulva.

Little Australian Wasp Hunts Venomous Redback Spiders (September 11, 2012): University of Adelaide researchers have announced that a small wasp is being dubbed the redback spider-hunting wasp.

Researchers Turn Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches Into Remote Control Cockroach Cyborgs (September 7, 2012): Researchers from North Carolina State University have created remote control cockroach cyborgs.

Researchers Discover Ladybugs Can Walk Underwater Using Trapped Air Bubbles on Their Feet (September 6, 2012): Researchers have discovered that ladybugs (or ladybird beetles) can walk underwater using air bubbles trapped on their feet.

New Millipede Family Discovered in Australia (August 30, 2012): A new group of millipedes previously unknown in Australia has been discovered.

Scientists Find Oldest Arthropods Preserved in Amber (August 27, 2012): An international team of scientists has discovered the oldest record of arthropods preserved in amber.

Counting Cricket Chirps to Determine the Temperature (August 11, 2012): Counting the amount of chirps crickets make per second can apparently be used to give you a fairly accurate temperature reading.

New Lacewing Species Discovered in Series of Flickr Images (August 8, 2012): A new species of green lacewing was discovered online on Flickr.

Scientists Discover That Most Fruit Flies on Meth Die From Anorexia (August 5, 2012): University of Illinois entomology professor Barry Pittendrigh (left), postdoctoral researcher Kent Walters and their colleagues recently conducted a study tracking metabolic and behavioral changes in fruit flies on methamphetamine.

Scientists Discover That Bats Use Sound of Copulating House Flies as Cue for Foraging (July 24, 2012): Scientists have determined that bats listen for the sound of copulating house flies as a cue to foraging.

Video: Horsehead Grasshopper Reaches Across a Gap Between Two Rods (July 7, 2012): Researchers from the University of Sussex and University of Cambridge have shown that insects are capable of challenging neuronal tasks like visually targeted reaching.

Ants Farm Aphid Clones in Subterranean Rooms (July 5, 2012): Scientists have discovered that ants farm aphid clones in subterranean rooms.

World's Tiniest Fly Discovered, Probably Decapitates Ants (July 2, 2012): Scientists have discovered the world's tiniest fly.

Several New Ant Species Discovered in the Philippines (June 27, 2012): David General of Palawan State University, The Philippines and Gary Alpert of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University have discovered nine genera of ants that had never been recorded before in the Philippines.

Fungi Helps Plants Eat Insects (June 25, 2012): Researchers at Brock University have discovered that plants can consume nutrients from insects with the help of a fungi called Metarhizium.

Carnivorous Pitcher Plant Uses Rain Drops and Vibrating Lid to Capture Insects (June 13, 2012): Researchers have discovered that Nepenthes gracilis pitcher plants have another novel trapping mechanism for getting insects to plunge to their deaths.

Robot Taught to Mimic Pendulum-like Ledge Escape Technique of Cockroaches and Geckos (June 7, 2012): Researchers at UC Berkeley's PolyPEDAL Lab have trained their hexapod robot, named Dash, to make sudden seemingly impossible turns on ledges.