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 The Praying Mantis Leaps        ScienceTake        The New York Times        15 March 2015

 

 

 

 

The Praying Mantis Leaps        Video        ScienceTake | The New York Times        15 March 2015

 

A praying mantis takes a leap

that would do Michael Jordan proud.

 

Produced by: David Frank and James Gorman

Read the story here: http://nyti.ms/1x8WFgw

Watch more videos at: http://nytimes.com/video

 

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ_Jb8THWRw

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Great Ant Escape        NYT        30 May 2015

 

 

 

 

The Great Ant Escape        Video        ScienceTake | The New York Times        30 May 2015

 

Trap-jaw ants have a startling way

to jump out of the slippery-sloped pits of predators.

 

Produced by: David Frank and James Gorman

Read the story here: http://nyti.ms/1EAj3RY

 

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqeSnUy2LS4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

insect        UK

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/insects 

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/06/
pest-caterpillars-helicopter-blitz-insecticide

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/30/
harlequin-ladybird-uk-invasion 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

insect        USA

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/
magazine/insect-apocalypse.html

 

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/19/
551876044/once-teased-for-her-love-of-bugs-8-year-old-co-authors-scientific-paper

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/24/
521359417/octogenarian-couple-donates-10-million-insect-collection

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/09/nyregion/
experts-cheer-the-deep-freeze-as-a-killer-of-invasive-insects.html

 

 

 

 

giant insect        USA

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/11/
465781993/love-giant-insects-meet-the-tree-lobster-back-from-the-brink

 

 

 

 

giant insect > tree lobster        USA

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/11/
465781993/love-giant-insects-meet-the-tree-lobster-back-from-the-brink

 

 

 

 

insect communication        USA

http://www.npr.org/2015/08/27/
432934935/good-vibrations-key-to-insect-communication

 

 

 

 

Insect ecologist        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/18/
tracking-causes-monarch-butterfly-decline

 

 

 

 

insecticide        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/18/
tracking-causes-monarch-butterfly-decline

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/06/
pest-caterpillars-helicopter-blitz-insecticide

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/
insecticide-an-ecological-disaster-that-will-affect-us-all-1019520.html

 

 

 

 

pesticides        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/pesticides

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

fly        USA

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSZp9eQ4PtI - June 2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

hoverfly        USA

 

http://www.npr.org/2016/07/23/
486731588/the-uppermost-aristocracy-of-the-hoverfly-society

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lanternflies,

which are not flies

but insects called planthoppers,

have a chameleonic life cycle.

 

They hatch in the spring

as wingless, glossy black nymphs

with white spots,

and pass through several stippled phases

before maturing in midsummer.

 

The adults are certainly hard to miss.

 

They are clunky fliers,

reliant on gusts of wind

to coast from tree to tree,

according to Julie Urban,

an evolutionary biologist at Penn State.

 

Fortunately,

the insects pose no threat to humans.

 

If a lanternfly lands on you

— and it likely will —

you may feel a slight poke.

 

But this is from the bug’s tarsal claws,

not its mouth,

Dr. Urban said.

 

Lanternflies do pose a serious threat

to American crops, particularly vineyards.

 

The insects sip on sap

from ornamental fruit trees and grape vines,

a refined palate that could cost the state

at least $324 million per year

and eliminate 2,800 jobs,

according to a study published

by Penn State economists in 2019,

which also included

a worst-case scenario of $554 million

lost per year.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/21/
science/lanternbug-invasive-insect.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/21/
science/lanternbug-invasive-insect.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ant        USA

 

https://www.nytimes.com/video/science/
100000005161948/ants-building-towers.html - July 2017

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/04/12/
523313734/no-ant-left-behind-warrior-ants-carry-injured-comrades-home

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/
science/15wils.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/us/
16ants.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

cricket        USA

 

http://www.nytimes.com/video/science/
100000004010185/cricket-ballet.html - Nov. 2, 2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

caterpillar        USA

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/
science/tomato-plants-caterpillars-cannibalism.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

gnat

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

bug        UK

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/30/
harlequin-ladybird-uk-invasion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

bug        USA

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/21/
science/lanternbug-invasive-insect.html

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/19/
551876044/once-teased-for-her-love-of-bugs-8-year-old-co-authors-scientific-paper

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/24/
521359417/octogenarian-couple-donates-10-million-insect-collection

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/22/
506581610/bugs-abound-if-you-think-the-skies-are-crowded-you-have-no-idea

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

cockroach        USA

 

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2015/03/16/
393403190/what-cockroaches-with-backpacks-can-do-ah-mazing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

dragonflies        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/dec/26/
wildlife-2012-orchids-slugs-blossom

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2010/oct/06/
british-wildlife-photography-awards-2010#/?picture=367388585&index=4

 

 

 

 

dragonflies and damselflies        UK

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2014/apr/04/
dragonflies-and-damselflies-your-reader-photographs

 

 

 

 

ladybird        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2013/jul/22/
ladybird-species-harlequin-uk-insects

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/30/
harlequin-ladybird-uk-invasion

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/jun/11/
make-your-nature-count-live

 

 

 

 

beetle        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/video/science/
100000004254221/surfing-beetles.html - Mar. 7, 2016

 

 

 

 

 bloody-nosed beetle        UK

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/09/
bloody-nosed-beetle-dartmoor-country-diary

 

 

 

 

blue leaf beetle        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2010/oct/06/
british-wildlife-photography-awards-2010#/?picture=367388653&index=5

 

 

 

 

firefly        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/
science/30firefly.html

 

 

 

 

pollinator        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/apr/12/
bee-road-pollinators

 

 

 

 

decline of species that pollinate        USA

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/26/
468241649/report-more-pollinators-species-in-jeopardy-threatening-world-food-supply

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/27/
science/decline-of-species-that-pollinate-poses-
a-threat-to-global-food-supply-report-warns.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

tick        USA

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/06/
health/asian-long-horned-tick.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/
magazine/what-the-mystery-of-the-tick-borne-meat-allergy-could-reveal.html

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/07/24/
631814695/ticks-and-lyme-disease-3-factors-determine-risk-of-infection

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/03/20/
594922001/watch-how-a-tick-digs-its-hooks-into-you

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/02/27/
588408433/asian-ticks-mysteriously-turned-up-on-a-new-jersey-sheep

 

 

 

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/04/21/
523066394/-curiousgoat-will-climate-change-help-ticks-and-mosquitoes-spread-disease

 

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2011/07/15/
137761684/high-tick-season-is-upon-us-so-keep-critters-off-of-you

 

 

 

 

http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/27/
more-ticks-more-misery/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

grasshopper        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/us/
10grasshopper.html

 

 

 

 

USA > cicada        UK / USA

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/23/
861582233/theyre-back-millions-of-cicadas-expected-to-emerge-this-year

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2013/may/10/
cicadas-video-for-adam-gabbatt

 

 

 

 

locust        USA

http://www.npr.org/2015/08/27/
432934935/good-vibrations-key-to-insect-communication

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A female house spider

 

Photograph: Stefan Sollfors/Science Factio

 

25 September 2009        G        Spider numbers may be on the rise

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/sep/25/insects?picture=353443708

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/25/spider-population-explosion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

spider        UK

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=EdbfZ0ncu3g&list=PL4CGYNsoW2iAER6DUOhwnxnBl0L7oAIsl

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2013/oct/17/
false-widow-spider-attacks

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2011/oct/04/
spider-season-green-shoots-photos

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/sep/18/
spiders-spark-surge-of-arachnophobia

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/oct/22/
raft-fen-spiders

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/sep/25/
insects

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/25/
spider-population-explosion

 

 

 

 

 

spider        USA

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/05/
626123698/when-spiders-go-airborne-it-s-electric-literally

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/06/08/
531616366/what-goes-on-in-the-minds-of-spiders

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/14/
497931790/a-spider-across-the-room-can-hear-you-study-finds

 

 

 

 

house spider        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/aug/31/
spider-season-home-arachnid-invasion

 

 

 

 

wolf spider        UK

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/the-northerner/2014/jun/04/
wolf-spider-crook-county-durham

 

 

 

 

arachnophobia        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/sep/18/
spiders-spark-surge-of-arachnophobia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

entomology        USA

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/19/
551876044/once-teased-for-her-love-of-bugs-8-year-old-co-authors-scientific-paper

 

 

 

 

entomologist        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/aug/19/
insects-food-crisis

 

 

 

 

entomologist        USA

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/19/
551876044/once-teased-for-her-love-of-bugs-8-year-old-co-authors-scientific-paper

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/22/
506581610/bugs-abound-if-you-think-the-skies-are-crowded-you-have-no-idea

 

 

 

 

entomophagy (insect eating)        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/aug/19/
insects-food-crisis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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