Have you ever heard of pancake syndrome? No, it鈥檚 not the medicalization of having breakfast for dinner, nor is it a skin rash reminiscent of those delicious flat cakes. It鈥檚 a severe allergic...
There are bugs in your cup of tea. Not whole bugs (hopefully not). But the essence of a hundred species of insects can be found in that tea bag you buy from the store. Even if you have been sipping...
The Venus flytrap is a carnivorous plant well known for its ability to lure insects (and arachnids) into its 鈥渃apture organ.鈥� Once they enter there is no escape. The organ shuts tight and the...
Leafcutter ants can strip as much as 17%聽of the leaf biomass from plants in their ecosystem and can clear聽entire trees in under a day. Next to ours, leafcutter ant society is the most complex...
In general, I find 鈥淐enter for Science in the Public Interest鈥� to be a very reputable organization and I always enjoy reading 鈥淣utrition Action,鈥� their flagship publication. I usually find myself...
There are various insecticides that will eliminate ants. Chlorpyrifos is probably the most effective and is available in a number of commercial versions containing 0.5% of the active ingredient. It...
You've probably heard this one.聽 An earwig crawls into a lady's ear while she is asleep on a beach.聽 She doesn't realize anything is wrong until she starts to have terrible pains.聽 An x-ray...
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