Dec 04, 2018
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Newly discovered wasp turns social spiders into zombies
It sounds like the plot of the world's tiniest horror movie: deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, a newly discovered species of wasp transforms a "social" spider into a zombie-like drone that abandons its colony to do the wasp's ...
Gene study boosts bid to keep British bees safe from disease
Efforts to protect the UK's native honey bees could be helped by research that maps their entire genetic make-up.
For ants, unity is strength—and health
When a pathogen enters their colony, ants change their behavior to avoid the outbreak of disease. In this way, they protect the queen, brood and young workers from becoming ill. These results, from a study carried out in ...
