Insects
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Flies are often the first visitors to a murder scene. Studying their grisly dining habits can reveal vital clues to help catch the killer
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Shrill carder bee and chequered skipper butterfly are among 20 endangered bugs, bees, butterflies and plants to benefit from £4.6m in lottery funding
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Letters: From DDT to lead in petrol, businesses have fought tooth and nail against legal restrictions, until they came and the predicted disasters never happened. But why stop at fields and neonics?
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Play VideoOctogenarian couple Charles and Lois O’Brien have this week announced they would donate their home collection of more than a million insects to Arizona State University
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Collection will help scientists piece together a large branch of insects’ family tree and be a resource for scientists who study natural controls on the environment
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Bees are better at problem solving than previously thought, and can learn tasks totally unlike their natural behaviour, say researchers
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Bumblebees can learn how to manoeuvre a ball by watching others carry out the task, researchers from Queen Mary University of London have discovered
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DNA sequencing shows insects crossed oceans then migrated from treetops to the ground to adapt to ancient climate change
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Notebook Can we have too many trees?
Patrick BarkhamHunting and mountaineering organisations say that plans to increase forest cover in Scotland will ruin the countryside. I disagree
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Injured ants get rescued after sending chemical SOS, researchers find