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Birds eat 400 to 500 million tonnes of insects annually: Study
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sept 2 (ANI): Birds around the world eat 400 to 500 million metric tonnes of beetles, flies, ants, moths, aphids, grasshoppers, crickets and other arthropod per year, claims a study.
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Pollution in cities damaging ecosystems: Study
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 28 (ANI): High levels of pollution found in many of the world's major cities are having a negative impact on plants and insects, claim researchers.
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Intensive beekeeping not responsible for common bee diseases: Study
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 17 (ANI): A recent study has suggested that intensive beekeeping does not raise the risk of diseases that harm or kill the insects.
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Insects feel persistent pain after injury: study
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 13 (ANI): A new study provides compelling evidence to suggest that insects also experience chronic pain, which persists long after the healing of an initial injury.
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Cockroaches getting stronger, becoming immune to most insecticides: study
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 3 (ANI): All our efforts to wipe out those tiny cockroaches are going in vain! These insects have evolved and are only getting stronger by the day.
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Rajasthan: Authorities on alert after locust attack warning
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Barmer (Rajasthan) [India], Jun 24 (ANI): In the wake of a locust attack threat from across the Pakistan border, authorities here have gone on an alert to deal with a swarm of the tropical grasshoppers entering India since the insects can devastate standing crops.
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Bees can connect symbols to numbers, finds study
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], June 6 (ANI): After learning that bees can understand zero and do basic math, researchers have now discovered that these tiny insects may be capable of connecting symbols to numbers as well.
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Can lab-grown insect meat be a future food?
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 31 (ANI): Given the harmful effect livestock farming poses for the planet, researchers have proposed plant-based diets, insect farming, lab-grown meat, and genetically modified animals as an alternative to livestock farming.
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Researchers forecast worldwide move towards smaller birds, mammals
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [USA], May 25 (ANI): In the future, small, fast-lived, highly-fertile, insect-eating animals which can thrive in a wide variety of habitats will predominate, a recent study suggests.
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Virtual reality could serve as environmental education tool
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA] Apr 21 (ANI): Gaming and virtual reality (VR) could bridge the gap between urban societies and nature, claimed a recent study. The researchers strive to bridge the gap by a new VR game they developed called, Butterfly World 1.0, an adventure game designed to engage i
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Insect Arm inspired drones invented using in-flight adjustments technology
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Apr 17 (ANI): Researchers have developed a drone with 'movable-arm technology'. It is inspired by the wings and flight patterns of insects. The new technology enables the drones to function in windy conditions along with making it more energy efficient.
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Climate change impacts fertility in insects, study reveals
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 16 (ANI): A study on insects has found that males when subjected to heat stress become infertile before females do. The study also explained how the temperature at which an animal is developed impacts its reproductive behaviour and physiology.
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