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Jumping spider watching you,
jumping spider watching you (again),
mantis eating a fly,
mantis eating a fly (again),
mantis watching you,
mantis watching you (again),
ladybird hatching,
flies having sex,
crane flies having sex,
shepherd,
WTF is that,
WTF is that (again), and a really
cute baby hamster. Photographs by
David Jobi
posted by elgilito
on Apr 20, 2013 -
40 comments
The Anternet is always up. On the surface, ants and the Internet don't seem to have much in common. But two Stanford researchers have discovered that a species of harvester ants determine how many foragers to send out of the nest in much the same way that Internet protocols discover how much bandwidth is available for the transfer of data. [more inside]
posted by jquinby
on Aug 29, 2012 -
19 comments
If a young worker attempts to reproduce, she is spreadeagled by her fellows and kept immobilized for hours or even days. At the end of her sentence, the best she can hope for is a reduction in rank and loss of reproductive capability. Often she is mutilated or killed.
Fascinating
article about police-state behavior in insects, complete with information on mutant anarchist worker bees, ant-led coups, and parasitic self-cloning bees.
(via BoingBoing.)
posted by Vidiot
on Aug 6, 2003 -
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