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Insects are less efficient pollinators than bees, but they compensate for this disadvantage by visiting each flower more frequently. Photo: shutterstock

Not on the bee alone

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A flock of bats foraging for food. Photo: Shankar S., Flickr

Bats in a different light

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A bowl of boiled crickets. Photo: shutterstock

Switch to eating insects?

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A bumble bee sucks nectar and in the process pollinates a flower. Photo: shutterstock

Everything is honey (but only for now)

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Credit: Nika Wiltse; Courtesy of John Bush, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Micromachines on the bar / Rachel Feltman

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Shrubs at grass height. An ant carries a load weighing 5,000 times its body weight. Photo: shutterstock

Studies prove that the built-in mechanics of the ant's neck allows it to lift a weight of up to 5,000 times (!) its body weight.

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Water Striders. Photo: shutterstock

Master chef inspired by nature

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Surinamese cockroach. Photo: shutterstock

Cockroaches instead of dung beetles (or vice versa)

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Roach. From Wikipedia

Fruit-loving pests / Anna Kuchment

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Natural Gears - Image courtesy of Prof. Malcolm Burrows

Who invented the gear wheel?

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Robotic insects. Illustration: shutterstock

Artificial Fossils / Lux Larsen

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Warming affects the species distribution and size of Orius bugs. Photo courtesy of BioBee

(Climate) change starts with bedbugs

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It is possible that the honey substitute does not provide the bees with the protection they need to deal with the pesticides. Photography: Shutterstock

Has the bee disappearance puzzle been solved?

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A larva of the parasitoid Endaphis after emerging from the body of its host, the banana aphid. Photo: from the original article, courtesy of Frédéric Muratori

The enemy within: the fugitive

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[Adult moth of the species Phyllonorycter blancardella]

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Tiny robotic insects (Credit: Kevin Ma and Pakpong Chirarattananon, Harvard University.)

Flying robotic insects took first controlled flight

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One of the many illustrations drawn by Maria Sibylla Marian. From Wikipedia

The 366th birthday of nature book illustrator and researcher Maria Sibylla Marian

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The band of desert locusts that entered Israel during the month of November 2004. From Wikipedia

locust plague

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The free fall position of leaf aphids. The aphids bring the tentacles up and forward and the hind legs back and up to create an aerodynamically stable position that ensures a proper landing. Illustration Nick W. Sloff

Not only cats fall on their feet

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A dung beetle whose eyes are covered, in an experiment designed to test the beetles' use of the light of the Milky Way for orientation. Photo: Prof. Marcus Byrne from Wits University in Dr

The dung beetle - the first animal to use the milky path for orientation in space

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Insects discovered in amber in northeastern Italy. Photo: University of Padua

Arthropod fossils 230 million years old were discovered encased in amber

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A Metarhizium type fungus attacks cockroach. From Wikishare

There are hidden predators

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Carpenter ants - feed on furniture. From Wikipedia (CC license)

The social network of the ants

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Honey bees enter the hive. From Wikipedia

A common pesticide, imidacloprid, is apparently the cause of the disappearance of the bees

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An ant marked with a barcode in Dr. Feinerman's laboratory. Photo: Weizmann Institute

The social network

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