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Weber students read book, eat crickets
Iowa City :: IA :: USA | 6 days ago
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Olivia Manaligod, Meg Moreland and four of their classmates sat apprehensively in their chairs this afternoon. Eyeing the chocolate-covered items in front of them, they counted down and then the six Weber Elementary fourth-graders popped them into their...
Tags: Katherine Carter, Iowa City, The Crickets, Chocolate, Beetle, Insects, Entomology, Cricket, Education
Praying Mantis drops in on Punditty
Oct. 20, 2009 So there I was, just minding my own business as I entered the laundry room - and what falls at my feet but a praying mantis? Apparently, I knocked the little critter from his perch without seeing him when I placed my hand in the doorway....
Tags: Praying mantis, Punditty, children enjoying nature, insects
Today you will see lions and monkeys, insects, and pandas, as well as many other animals.
Rhino Calf: Seto Paitala rhino calf, which means that the Nepali “white leg”, stands next to his mother Puranas in a closed cage at the zoo in Nuremberg, Germany. Seto was born in the zoo a week ago. Pandas: 100-day baby pandas named Ping...
Tags: Today you will see lions and monkeys, insects, and pandas, as well as many other animals.
Warming climate has spawned invasion of tree-killer insects
A tiny beetle spells big trouble for the remaining forests across the Yukon down to parts of Washington State. Further north, Siberia is bracing for an onslaught of the Siberian silk moth, the most destructive defoliator of conifer forests in Northern...
Tags: Pine beetles, climate change, global warming, Obama, Jay Inslee, Siberian moth, insects, wildfires, forest ecology, Canada, Yukan
Share your outdoor experiences!
When I was younger I took my instinctual way of travel as a nothing more than an ability and not a gift. Now that my age seeems to be reminding me that plodding along is not quite as simple as it used to be in my younger days, I don't take it for...
Tags: wildlife, landscape, trees, birds, city, insects, people
U.S. climate bill may be too late for some species, but killer insects Thrive!
Temperature and climate variations have already started to impact the globe’s wildlife and natural ecosystems. But not all life is being adversely affected. Insects, like mosquitoes and tree-ravaging beetles, have been multiplying in alarming numbers....
Tags: Climate change, global warming, wildlife, insects, frogs
Robot Birds in our Future?
Robotic birds... sounds like something out of a futuristic paranoid conspiracy flick, but it could be a reality in the near future. Ty Hedrick, an animal aerodynamics expert at the University of North Carolina and a team of biologists have developed...
Tags: robots, birds, insects, aeronautics
Radioactive Wasps Left a Mess for Workers
LOS ANGELES And we thought Kim Jong Il was bad. Now we've really got problems. Workers cleaning up the nation's most contaminated nuclear site, thought they had enough to worry about scrubbing up the radioactive waste. Never in their wildest dreams...
Tags: contaminated, nuclear, radioactive, wasps, wasps nests, insects, entomologists, atomic, nuclear waste
Spider as BIG as a dinner plate! New species uncovered!
As much as 1000 new species of insect and reptile have been discovered in South - east Asia. Scientist are over the moon with the discoveries that have been made in the last decade. The discoveries were more than expected with one scientist claiming that...
Tags: allnews, extinct, scientist, discovery, spider, rat, insects, animal
Trees Can Save the World
We all know that trees are good things, useful for their wood, seeds, leaves, roots, bark or fruits as the case may be. But in fact they are more than that and in a real sense they confer immense benefits which we have yet to fully discover...
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