Spiders & Insects News
News: Watch Out or This Billboard Will Sting You
The world's first bee populated billboard features 10,000 of the insects, drawn in from a local honey bee farm, using queen bee pheromones. The billboard is a call to action for England’s diminishing bee population, which has decreased by 50% in the last 20 years.
News: What if Your Face Was Covered in 50,000 Bees?
Every year in Ontario, Canada, the Clovermead Bees & Honey, Bee Beard Competition is held. Categories include squeezing honeycomb, lighting smokers, suiting up quick, and building bee boxes, and catching bees.
News: 5 Years of Ant Colonization Captured in a Scanner Bed
François Vautier built an art farm into his scanner and then proceeded to scan the farm each week for a duration of five years. Amazing time-lapsed result below. Inspired project... though perhaps not quite as inspired as the massive ant city filled with cement and then evacuated (video #2 in the gallery below). Insane. Don't miss it.
News: Super Rare Bumblebees Build Homes With Flower Petals
Two research teams, in Turkey and Iran, both recently discovered an incredibly rare species of bees. Coined the Osmia (Ozbekosima) avoseta bee, the insects use colorful flower petals to create papier-mache cocoons for their offspring.
News: Recipe for Take No Prisoners Flyo-caust
Curbly says, "This fly paper is delicious! How couldn't it be with ingredients like this?" Ingredients:
News: Suture a live Monarch butterfly's wing - honest
This seems unbelievable and quite unnatural, but the backyard surgery of reconstructing an insect's wing is possible.
News: Everything You Need to Know About Bed Bugs
If you've ever had even the slightest encounter with bed bugs, you know they are the most feared, nastiest vermin in New York City, as well as other closely populated spaces (re: college dorms). The latest nasty bit of news on the topic concerns clothing retailer Hollister- their flagship Soho store was shut down for three days for infestation.
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