A LARGE consignment of live ants was found in luggage at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport bound for China earlier this month NAIROBI: DURING this rainy season, swarms can be seen leaving ...

With careful monitoring in place, it could be that future farmers around Gilgil will have special formicaria on their land expanding the yields from their fields and orchards - full of vegetables and ...

A man has been caught trying to smuggle hundreds of endangered spiders and insects out of Peru. Officials stopped the 28-year-old Korean citizen, who had hidden the animals about his person, as he ...

Across Aphididae, body length ranges roughly from ~0.5 mm in the smallest species to ~8 mm in the largest (notably some conifer aphids like Cinara). Small soft-bodied sap-feeders (aphid-like), often ...

Abstract: The article is focused on the creation of a system for automatic tracking of the conditions of formicaria using machine learning methods. The aim of the research is to develop a complex ...

The Turpentine tree – Pistacia terebinthus – Cornicabra is a resinous small tree or shrub that is native to the Mediterranean region. In Iberia it is commonly found on limestone areas, occurring more ...

Behavioral studies of gynandromorphism, also called as sex mosaic, contribute to the understanding of the relationship between morphological gender and sexual identity of an animal. Few studies have ...

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Protective mimicry is seen in many animals, such as moths that develop coloured patches to appear like butterflies. Now a team of researchers from Cornell University has found that spiders mimic ant ...

To avoid being eaten, some jumping spiders pretend to be ants, a new study has found. Protective mimicry is a remarkable example of adaptive evolution: Moths can be colored like butterflies and ...