Tropical insects 'go the distance' to inform rainforest conservation

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Ambrosia beetles were studied by the research team. The large one is a female the smaller one a male. As an aside these beetles mate within individual families only brothers with sisters. The males are small flightless and die soon after mating. Cred ...
Ambrosia beetles were studied by the research team. The large one is a female, the smaller one a male. As an aside, these beetles mate within individual families only, brothers with sisters. The males are small, flightless and die soon after mating. Credit: Jiri Hulcr, Michigan State University

The long-held belief that plant-eating insects in tropical forests are picky eaters that stay “close to home” – dining only on locale-specific vegetation – is being challenged by new research findings that suggest these insects feast on a broader menu of foliage and can be consistently found across hundreds of miles of tropical forestland.


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(AP) -- Archaeologists have unearthed an elaborately decorated 1,800-year-old chariot sheathed in bronze at an ancient Thracian tomb in southeastern Bulgaria, the head of the excavation said Friday. "The ...
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