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Male crickets with bigger heads are better fighters, study reveals, echoing ancient Chinese text
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Jan 07, 2009 |
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Observing and betting on cricket fights has been part of Chinese cultural tradition since at least the Sung Dynasty (A.D. 960-1278). This ancient practice has resulted in quite a detailed list of characteristics ...
Male crickets with bigger heads are better fighters, study reveals
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Jan 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Observing and betting on cricket fights has been part of Chinese cultural tradition since at least the Sung Dynasty (A.D. 960-1278). This ancient practice has resulted in a detailed list of characteristics ...
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Remembrance of Things Past Influences How Female Field Crickets Select Mates
Apr 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UC Riverside biologists researching the behavior of field crickets have found for the first time that female crickets remember attractive males based on the latter’s song, and use this information when choosing ...
Mother knows best: Females control sperm storage to pick the best father
Sep 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have found new evidence to explain how female insects can influence the father of their offspring, even after mating with up to ten males. A team from the University of Exeter has ...
Men and women may need different diets: research
Jul 16, 2008 |
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Diet can strongly influence how long you live and your reproductive success, but now scientists have discovered that what works for males can be very different for females.
For crickets, parasitic flies can stop the music
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Dec 13, 2006 |
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Love hurts — really bad, for some unlucky crickets, anyway. Male crickets draw not only females with their songs but also parasitic flies. The uninvited guests then deposit larvae that burrow into their amorous hosts, grow ...
New life histories emerge for invasive wasps, magnify ecological harm
Jul 20, 2009 |
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A switch from annual to multiyear colonies and a willingness to feed just about any prey to their young have allowed invasive yellowjacket wasps to disrupt native populations of insects and spiders on two ...
Birds 'See' Earth's Magnetic Field
Nov 16, 2009 |
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When birds migrate over long distances -- sometimes thousands of miles -- they usually end up in exactly the same place year after year. Such accurate feats of navigation, accomplished by millions of birds ...
Multiferroic compounds used to produce smaller and cheaper digital memories
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Is it possible to make even more compact digital memories for portable electronic devices and which consume even less energy? A team of French researchers has recently demonstrated that it ...
In College Football, Home Field Advantage Often Overestimated
Nov 24, 2009 |
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This year, many of college football's biggest rivalry games take place over Thanksgiving weekend. A win earns bragging rights for the year. Visiting teams are often thought to be at a considerable disadvantage, especially ...
Insect resistance to Bt crops can be predicted, monitored and managed
Nov 23, 2009 |
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Since 1996, crop plants genetically modified to produce bacterial proteins that are toxic to certain insects, yet safe for people, have been planted on more than 200 million hectares worldwide. The popularity of these Bt ...
Wide heads give hammerheads exceptional stereo view
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Hammerhead sharks are some of the Ocean's most distinctive residents. 'Everyone wants to understand why they have this strange head shape,' says Michelle McComb from Florida Atlantic University. One possible ...
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