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City moths may have evolved smaller wings due to light pollution

Populations of moths living in urban places may have evolved smaller wings to limit how much bright city lights disrupt their lives

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Bumblebees show each other how to solve complex puzzles

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Deadly plant kills its pollinators but nurses their young

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Air pollution is changing the scent of flowers and confusing insects

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Stunning slo-mo videos show how insects survive raindrop collisions

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Insects thrive on solar farms planted with native flowers

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Locusts spun in a centrifuge develop extra-strong exoskeletons

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‘Insect-eye’ compass can navigate by the sun even on a cloudy day

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Ants treat their own fungal infections by eating aphids

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Some insects disguise themselves as spiders to avoid getting eaten

Several species of flies, moths and planthoppers look so much like their jumping spider enemies that they fool an image-recognition AI

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Emergence of huge cicada generation in 2021 led to a caterpillar boom

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Paris's bedbug problem is probably no worse than other major cities

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Carolina Sphinx Moth (Manduca sexta)

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Wing-flapping robot helps explain the evolution of insect flight

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Europe’s ‘insect apocalypse’ may mostly be driven by changing weather

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