Tag: insects
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Beetles, astrology, Milky Way, Unity...
They may be small and down in the dirt, but it seems that dung beetles also have their eyes on the stars. Scientists have shown how these insects will use the Milky Way to orientate themselves as they roll their balls of muck along the ground. The study by Marie Dacke is reported in the journal Current…
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Ants' hive mind - Could humans also have one?
Researchers at Arizona State University tracked individual ants marked with colored dots as they selected a home out of a set of eight nest sites, half good and half poor. On their own, ants got overwhelmed and chose good sites only 50 percent of the time — no better than chance. But when the whole colony was…
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