Insects

News
January 18, 2023
4,188
Scientists have explained why there are insects
(ORDO NEWS) — First, the authors note that insect eating by humans is nothing new. This has happened throughout human…
Read More »
News
December 19, 2022
5,346
Biologists have found that the extinction of insects annually leads to the death of more than 400 thousand people
(ORDO NEWS) — Scientists at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health found that the loss of pollinators led to…
Read More »
News
November 2, 2022
3,386
First proven game of insects: bees roll balls on the ground
(ORDO NEWS) — A team of entomologists has unveiled a new study showing how insects play with marbles even in…
Read More »
News
October 29, 2022
2,821
Scientists discover play behavior in insects
(ORDO NEWS) — Experiments with bumblebees have shown that they can get carried away with rolling a ball without receiving…
Read More »
News
October 25, 2022
2,601
Swarms of insects can store electricity like thunderclouds
(ORDO NEWS) — Scientists have estimated the magnitude of the charges that accumulate flocks of flying insects. Each of them…
Read More »
News
October 25, 2022
4,303
Insects can electrify the air as much as a thunderstorm
(ORDO NEWS) — A new study of the influence of flying insects on atmospheric electric fields has shown that the…
Read More »
News
October 25, 2022
2,945
Scientists have figured out why insects can not reach gigantic sizes
(ORDO NEWS) — One of the best things about evolution is that it didn’t lead to tank-sized cockroaches. Insects tend…
Read More »
News
September 2, 2022
2,191
Swarms of tiny insects in the ocean attack people in San Diego
(ORDO NEWS) — Tiny crustaceans identified as waterline isopods (excirolana chiltoni) are relatively common, but experts cannot figure out what…
Read More »
News
July 16, 2022
2,051
Insects have been taking care of their offspring for 160 million years
(ORDO NEWS) — Although insects are not usually associated in our minds with the concept of “nurturing parent”, a team…
Read More »
News
July 14, 2022
2,170
Evidence is mounting that insects feel pain, just like we do
(ORDO NEWS) — We have long considered insects to be instinctive, mindless creatures with robotic responses to the world and…
Read More »
News
July 12, 2022
1,500
Scientists have proven that insects can feel pain
(ORDO NEWS) — Biologists from Queen Mary University of London have refuted the long-standing misconception that insects are not sensitive…
Read More »
News
July 6, 2022
3,558
Biologists have decided that insects can survive pain
(ORDO NEWS) — The new work points to the ability of insects to truly experience pain and raises questions about…
Read More »
News
May 14, 2022
1,534
We now know why natural selection may favor iridescence in some insects
(ORDO NEWS) — Myriads of animals possess brilliant iridescent hues of iridescent coloration that make them stunningly beautiful, but why…
Read More »
News
March 25, 2022
3,303
Nervous system of insects will be used to create robots with AI
(ORDO NEWS) — French research institute CEA-Leti said senior researcher Elisa Vianello has received 3 million euros from the European…
Read More »
News
February 18, 2022
2,612
An insect infected an American with three diseases at once
(ORDO NEWS) — In May 2021, a 70-year-old man was brought to the emergency room with fever, ankle swelling, and…
Read More »
News
February 14, 2022
905
Why are we seeing fewer insects on windshields
(ORDO NEWS) — If you’ve driven a car over the past few decades, you may have noticed that unlucky flies,…
Read More »
News
February 10, 2022
22,226
Chimpanzees use insects to heal their wounds
(ORDO NEWS) — Researchers have seen for the first time how chimpanzees use simple medicine to treat open wounds. A…
Read More »
News
February 7, 2022
25,868,455
Chimpanzees seen treating one another’s wound using ‘medicinal’ insects
(ORDO NEWS) — The behaviour suggests that the apes are capable of a feeling similar to empathy in humans, researchers…
Read More »