News Stories relating to "insects"

Bloodspots on your office chair? - Bedbugs are back and now they've moved from the bed to the office. Unless you want to catch them and eat them, what are you going to do?

Insects may have tiny brains the size of a pinhead, but the latest research shows just how clever they really are. Will the future Earth be controlled by intelligent insects? Scientists have discovered that surrealistic experiences increase human brainpower and now they've discovered that swarming increases the size of BUG brains (in this case...

Are the Grays the same thing? - Are the Grays actually an evolutionary form of hive insects from the future? Anne Strieber addresses this theory in our first Dreamland of 2010 (NOTE: subscriberscan still listen to this show).

For more than a century, biologists have marveled at the highly cooperative nature of ants, bees...

We now know that bacteria plan ahead. New research has revealed that some plants are hypochondriacs. Nature has a lot to tell us if we'll only listen.

They don't actually THINK they're sick when they're not, the way human hypochondriacs do. What they do is PRETEND to be sick, in order to fend off attacks by moths that only want to lay...

?And we're not talking about the Beatles. For some reason, people like to name newly-discovered species after rock musicians. In LiveScience.com, Jeanna Bryner reports that a new species of beetle has been named after rock star Roy Orbison, because it looks like it's wearing a tuxedo. Bryner reports that "in 2005, [entomologist Quentin] Wheeler...

We now know that cockroaches are responsible for a common respiratory ailment and that they are resistant to radiation (meaning that if an atomic bomb went off, we'd be gone but the roaches would still be in our kitchen). But did you know that there are 4,500 known species of roach and probably two or three times that many that have not yet...

UPDATE - Gary Mitchell reports in the Montgomery (AL) Advertiser that yellow jacket wasps have begun building huge nests in that state. Gigantic wasp nests are turning up in places like abandoned cars, barns and houses?and they are so large that they COMPLETELY FILL THEM UP. No one knows what has sparked this unusual behavior,...

One of the first signs of global warming is missingbirds andinsects. As the weather changes, they're turning up in newplaces and missing from their old haunts. Since some birdsand butterflies migrate annually, they may also be confusedby the pole shift, which is in progress right now.

The number of Red Admiral, Orange Sulphur and Painted...

Insects are invading people's ears in the U.K. 82-year-old Ron Packer heard a high-pitched hum in his hearing aid that turned out to be an attack by a swarm of wasps. And Patricia McLeod had to go to the doctor to have a large moth removed from her ear.

Packer disturbed a wasp's nest while gardening. When the wasps attacked him, they...