Slashdot Items Tagged "insects"

Date / Time Story
Wednesday November 01, 2023 @10:00PM Millions of Fruit Flies Will Be Dropped On Los Angeles
Wednesday March 01, 2023 @07:49PM Scientist Finds Rare Jurassic Era Bug At Arkansas Walmart, Kills It and Puts It On a Pin
Friday October 28, 2022 @05:37PM First-Ever Study Shows Bumble Bees 'Play'
Monday September 19, 2022 @06:12PM Earth Has 20 Quadrillion Ants, Study Says
Tuesday September 06, 2022 @08:18PM Scientists Create Cyborg Cockroaches Controlled By Solar-Powered Backpacks
Thursday September 30, 2021 @05:55PM A Declassified State Department Report Says Microwaves Didn't Cause 'Havana Syndrome'
Tuesday May 04, 2021 @10:49PM First Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Released In the United States
Friday October 23, 2020 @08:13PM First 'Murder Hornet' Nest In US Is Found In Washington State
Thursday August 06, 2020 @04:54PM Germany Plans To Dim Lights At Night To Save Insects
Monday June 22, 2020 @08:25PM Stuck At Home, Scientists Discover 9 New Insect Species
Thursday February 13, 2020 @06:01PM Car 'Splatometer' Tests Reveal Huge Decline In Number of Insects
Friday October 25, 2019 @06:03PM Why Ants Are Practically Immune To Traffic Jams
Monday September 23, 2019 @06:27PM Startups Are Using Insect Larvae To Produce Protein-Rich Ingredients For Animals
Wednesday May 08, 2019 @07:14PM How a Half-Inch Beetle Finds Fires 80 Miles Away
Sunday February 10, 2019 @06:02PM Insects Could Vanish Within a Century At Current Rate of Decline, Says Global Review
Tuesday January 15, 2019 @07:23PM Insect Collapse: 'We Are Destroying Our Life Support Systems'
Monday January 07, 2019 @06:50PM Monarch Butterfly Numbers Plummet 86 Percent In California
Saturday December 01, 2018 @10:58PM Monarch Butterfly Populations In the West Are Down an Order of Magnitude
Monday October 15, 2018 @07:51PM 'Hyperalarming' Study Shows Massive Insect Loss
Thursday October 11, 2018 @07:17PM Bees Stop Flying During Total Solar Eclipses
Thursday October 04, 2018 @10:01PM US Military Program Could Be Seen As a Bioweapon, Scientists Warn
Tuesday September 25, 2018 @10:49PM Roundup Weed Killer Could Be Linked To Widespread Bee Deaths, Study Finds
Thursday September 20, 2018 @08:57PM Microplastics Can Spread Via Flying Insects, Research Shows
Thursday February 01, 2018 @02:33PM Insect Die-off: Even Common Species Are Becoming Rare
Tuesday November 07, 2017 @06:23PM EPA Approves Release of Bacteria-Carrying Mosquitoes To 20 States
Wednesday October 18, 2017 @06:45PM Flying Insects Have Been Disappearing Over the Past Few Decades, Study Shows
Friday October 06, 2017 @07:14PM Massive 70-Mile-Wide Butterfly Swarm Shows Up On Denver Radar System
Monday April 24, 2017 @04:59PM A Caterpillar May Lead To a 'Plastic Pollution' Solution
Friday February 24, 2017 @10:06PM Scientists Teach Bees How To Play Soccer
Thursday January 26, 2017 @01:57AM DragonflEye Project Wants To Turn Insects Into Cyborg Drones
Sunday November 01, 2015 @05:10PM Bumblebees Used For Targeted Pesticide Deliveries
Tuesday October 20, 2015 @09:42AM Wildflowers Give Bees a Dose of Pesticides
Tuesday May 26, 2015 @08:19AM Bats' White-Nose Syndrome May Be Cured
Friday April 24, 2015 @05:59PM Bees Prefer Nectar Laced With Neonicotinoids
Friday June 27, 2014 @06:30PM Air Pollution Can Disrupt Pollinating Insects By Concealing the Scent of Flowers
Monday June 23, 2014 @08:14PM US Government Introduces Pollinator Action Plan To Save Honey Bees
Monday May 12, 2014 @10:36AM Harvard Study Links Neonicotinoid Pesticide To Colony Collapse Disorder
Friday February 21, 2014 @09:50PM VA Tech Experiment: Polar Vortex May Decimate D.C. Stinkbugs In 2014
Tuesday January 14, 2014 @09:23AM Experiment Shows Caffeine Boosts Long Term Memory
Thursday October 03, 2013 @10:10AM Asian Giant Hornets Kill 42 People In China, Injure Over 1,500
Thursday September 26, 2013 @01:06PM Clinton Grants $1 Million To Edible Insect Farmers
Tuesday July 30, 2013 @11:42AM What's Stopping Us From Eating Insects?
Tuesday July 16, 2013 @09:45AM Why Are Some People Mosquito Magnets?
Tuesday June 11, 2013 @10:58AM The Lepsis Is a Terrarium For Growing Edible Insects At Home
Saturday May 18, 2013 @12:30PM Electronics-Loving 'Crazy Ants' Invading Southern US
Thursday February 21, 2013 @10:08PM Mosquitoes Beginning To Ignore DEET Repellent
Friday January 11, 2013 @11:01PM Carrion Flies Used To Find New Species
Friday January 11, 2013 @10:58PM Fireflies Bring Us Brighter LEDs
Sunday December 23, 2012 @08:56PM Bee Venom Has "Botox-Like Effect," Is Worth 7 Times As Much As Gold
Tuesday October 09, 2012 @07:50AM Man dies after winning cockroach-eating contest
Saturday October 06, 2012 @12:27PM French Bees Produce Blue and Green Honey
Wednesday September 26, 2012 @01:25PM 300 Million Year Old Insects Pictured In 3D
Saturday April 07, 2012 @12:07PM Colony Collapse Disorder Linked To Pesticide, High-Fructose Corn Syrup
Thursday December 01, 2011 @09:08AM Fighting Mosquitoes With GM Mosquitoes
Friday November 25, 2011 @07:14PM Tiny Insect Cyborgs Could Act As First Responders
Friday November 04, 2011 @06:23PM Light Barrier Repels Mosquitoes
Thursday June 02, 2011 @01:43PM Modeling Security Software To Mimic Ant Behavior
Tuesday May 24, 2011 @07:43PM Staff at New Zealand Casino Forced to Wear Flea Collars
Friday April 08, 2011 @06:37PM Using Prime Numbers to Generate Backgrounds
Thursday February 17, 2011 @06:43PM Ants Build Cheapest Networks
Friday January 28, 2011 @07:01PM Malaysia Releases Genetically Modified Mosquitoes
Thursday December 23, 2010 @12:50AM 8-Year-Olds Publish Scientific Bee Study
Monday December 13, 2010 @01:37AM Next Generation of Algorithms Inspired by Ants
Monday October 25, 2010 @10:40AM Bees Beat Machines At 'Traveling Salesman' Problem
Thursday August 19, 2010 @01:49PM Zombie Ants and Killer Fungus
Friday March 19, 2010 @06:22PM Scientists Use Sex-Crazed Bugs As Pesticide
Saturday January 09, 2010 @07:34PM Ocean-Crossing Dragonflies Discovered