Richa Malhotra

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Tag Archives: Insects

This moth supplements its diet with bird tears

It probably gets its fix of salt from those tears.

September 24, 2018 in News, Science, Video, Writing Samples, Year of the Bird.

When predator turns prey

In a bizarre interaction between a frog and an insect, it’s the frog that ends up as food.

June 20, 2018 in Feature, Nature inFocus, Writing Samples.

Caterpillar vs. Beetle: Who wins?

Watch this caterpillar fling its beetle attacker through the air.

February 23, 2018 in News, Science, Video, Writing Samples.

Fungus creates zombie bugs with a short afterlife

The infected bugs seek out flowers, stick their heads in and bite for their life. Then, hours after dying, their wings spring into action.

June 9, 2017 in New Scientist, News, Writing Samples.

Female dragonflies drop dead to avoid males

It’s their way of rejecting unrequited love.

May 1, 2017 in Live Science, News, Writing Samples.

Wasp turns host into a self-sacrificing zombie

Meet the head-borer wasp that eats its way out into the world through another wasp’s head.

January 25, 2017 in Live Science, News, Writing Samples.

For these bees, being the firstborn girl is a curse

By giving a brood’s firstborn female smaller portions and a low-protein diet, a mother bee can turn the offspring into a nursemaid for her younger siblings.

September 13, 2016 in News, Science News for Students, Writing Samples.

Newfound bugs have strange body proportions

They have slender bodies, swollen legs, eyes that run down to the mouth and “tails” that are longer than themselves.

September 8, 2016 in Live Science, News, Writing Samples.

Queenless ant colony trapped in nuclear bunker forever

With new recruits that keep raining in from up above, this unique society has no queen, and the ants work in pitch darkness with no obvious access to food

September 5, 2016 in New Scientist, News, Writing Samples.

Poo matters: Earwig young survive on siblings’ poo

The odd feeding behaviour may even help keep the young insects together in a primitive form of social living.

July 21, 2016 in New Scientist, News, Writing Samples.

Secrets of the insect architects

Insects are skilled architects that build homes of all kinds, from basements to tree houses and even skyscrapers.

January 13, 2016 in BBC, Feature, Writing Samples.

Velvet ants are almost invincible

These colourful, hairy insects are beautiful to look at, but they have so many defences that virtually nothing eats them.

October 14, 2015 in BBC, Feature, Writing Samples.

How Ant-Man ants got this Cheerio home

Study explains how wandering ants guide a group of food gatherers back to the nest.

July 28, 2015 in News, Science, Video, Writing Samples.

Electricity from silk cocoons?

Researchers in India say they have developed a prototype of an energy-harvesting device from the cocoons of a domesticated species of silk moth.

August 25, 2014 in News, SciDevNet, Writing Samples.

Serrated egg-laying organ gives wasps an edge

Evolution has gifted them with a long, flexible and slender egg-laying organ.

May 29, 2014 in News, The Hindu, Writing Samples.
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