Ecology & Zoology

Microgaster Godzilla: New Species Of Wasp Dives Underwater To Attack A Caterpillar Host (Video)

Only a few species, less than 0.1 percent, of parasitoid wasps enter water at all but now one in the family Braconidae, subfamily Microgastrinae, has been found to not only enter water but actually dive in order to attack and pull out caterpillar hosts, so ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 4 2020 - 11:26am

Why Dolphins Don't Get "The Bends"?

In humans, if we spend time beneath the ocean and then travel to the surface, we can suffer decompression sickness, known as "the bends"- when the nitrogen in compressed air that dissolved into our blood during a dive does not have time to clear ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 24 2020 - 5:16pm

Alternative Medicine Is Ruining The Future Of 155 Threatened Species- Yet Helps No One

A new meta-analysis finds what scientists outside the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health have long known- alternatives to medicine, now called Integrative Medicine after failing as Complementary ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 13 2020 - 6:01am

How Fast Can Dogs Learn New Words? The Answer

Most dog owners will say that dogs understand tone, and interpret that rather than words, and that most dogs do not learn words (i.e. names of objects), unless extensively trained, but a new analysis shows that is not always the case. Some dogs have some e ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 26 2021 - 8:58am

Latest Data Show Bees Are Still Thriving At An Alarming Rate

The latest numbers on honeybee colonies have been released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and they show that the Beepocalypse we keep being warned about has been postponed for another year. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 18 2021 - 3:47pm

Science Could Save Africa $4 Trillion A Year- But Europeans Won't Let It

In the bizarre maze of modern cultural geopolitics, European progressives spend a lot of time rending garments about their history of colonialism, slavery, and exploitation while engaging in it- using financial blockades if former colonies do not comply. I ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 22 2021 - 1:01pm

How To Speak Cicada

(Inside Science)-- When you first hear it, a cicada chorus may sound like simple buzzing. But to a cicada, that cacophony is full of meaning.  There are three species in Brood X, the cohort of 17-year cicadas now emerging in much of the eastern U.S. Membe ...

Article - Inside Science - Jun 23 2021 - 5:31am

Beekeeper Survey Shows 6% Higher Losses Last Year Than The 39% Average

Honeybees die each year in great quantities and some years are worse than others. Since they are a big business, primarily as roving pollinators for crops that need them at a certain time (like almonds(1) there is always a concern about how to keep losses ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 23 2021 - 12:31pm

Beware Pests; There Is A New Carnivorous Plant Out There

Urban people may believe nature is balanced and peaceful and pristine but biologists know that nature really just wants to suck the nutrients from your dead corpse. Insects have more nature to worry about, in the form of the delicate stalk and pretty white ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 9 2021 - 7:10pm

Citrus Canker Returns To Texas, This Time With An Asian Strain

Citrus canker, caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas citri, was first identified in the United States near the Florida-Georgia border in 1910 and then raged across southern states.  It was considered eradicated in 1933, thanks to chemical intervention, but i ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 16 2021 - 1:11pm