Invertebrates - Insects and Arachnids
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Witchetty grub DNA sheds light on Indigenous bush food
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Researchers study the DNA of witchetty grubs to gain an insight into the eating habits of Indigenous people over thousands of years, sampling the scrambled eggs-like tasting larvae along the way.
Topics: invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, research, indigenous-culture, australia
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"Witchetty is actually a stick used to hook grubs out of a plant or a tree trunk, it's not a grub."
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Witchetty grub DNA sheds light on Indigenous bush food eaten for thousands of years.
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Not much is known about the different species of witchetty grubs that Indigenous people have been eating for thousands of years.
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Discovery of ant-eating spider with 'lock and key' genitals
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A Queensland scientist finds a new species of ant-eating spider and names it after a chance meeting with a new friend on Gumtree.
Topics: invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, animal-science, animals, environment, human-interest, brisbane-4000, lord-howe-island-2898
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Greeting the grasshopper plague with gusto Video
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An Alice Springs man is taking advantage of a grasshopper plague, by cooking them up with a little oil and salt.
Topics: animal-science, invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, alice-springs-0870
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Smartphone app helps identify more than 50 species of dragonfly
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A new app for identifying dragonflies in Australia's tropical regions, Identifly, promises to share and expand research on the insect.
Topics: invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, mobile-phones, nt
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The remainders of the larvae where the cicadas hatched image
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The remainders of the larvae where the cicadas hatched
Topics: invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, launceston-7250
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A redeye cicada sitting on a tree in Trevallyn image
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Topics: invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, launceston-7250
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Simon Fearn holding a cicada in its nymph stage image
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Simon Fearn holding a cicada in its nymph stage
Topics: invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, launceston-7250
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Tasmania could be in for cicada plague in next few years
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Cicada numbers are steady in Tasmania but they could boom in a couple of years thanks to a wet winter last year.
Topics: invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, animal-science, earth-sciences, human-interest, launceston-7250
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A red eyed cicada in Launceston image
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A red eyed cicada in Launceston
Topics: invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, launceston-7250
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Saluting a great Australian: The bush fly
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No summer barbecue would be complete without the great Aussie salute of waving away a fly. Sure it's a nuisance, but the Australian bush fly gets a bad rap.
Topics: science-and-technology, animal-science, invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, australia
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Why flies seem worse this summer and how to buzz them off
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It is not summer in Australia without a barbecue and a complimentary herd of flies, but how do you keep the flying liquorice at bay?
Topics: human-interest, invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, ecology, offbeat, weather, adelaide-5000, wollongong-2500
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Yellow-winged grasshoppers swarm a local carpark in Alice Springs image
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Topics: agricultural-crops, invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, alice-springs-0870
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Yellow-winged grasshoppers out in mass in Alice Springs image
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Topics: invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, agricultural-crops, alice-springs-0870
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Yellow-winged grasshoppers swarm Alice Springs image
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Topics: invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, agricultural-crops, alice-springs-0870
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Grasshoppers descend on Central Australia after heavy rainfall
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Central Australia is overrun with yellow-winged grasshoppers, but an expert says there is no threat to crops down south.
Topics: invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, agricultural-crops, rainfall, alice-springs-0870
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Topics: invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, melbourne-3000
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SA has the highest rate of hospitalisation & death from anaphylactic bee stings: New Research image
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Topics: invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, allergies, mount-gambier-5290
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South Australia tops list for deadly bee stings
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South Australia has the highest rate of hospitalisations and deaths caused by anaphylaxis from bee stings per capita in Australia.
Topics: invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, death, health, animal-behaviour, mount-gambier-5290
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Forget spiders and snakes, horses are more likely to kill you, study shows
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More Australians are killed by horses than all the country's venomous creatures put together, a new study by Melbourne researchers finds.
Topics: animal-attacks, invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, human-interest, animal-behaviour, health, death, community-and-society, australia, melbourne-3000
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Corroboree cicada Audio
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Listen to the call of the Corroboree cicada.
Topics: invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, canberra-2600
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Redeye cicada (Psaltoda moerens) image
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Topics: invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, canberra-2600
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Redeye cicada Audio
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Listen to the call of the Redeye cicada.
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