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Researchers have discovered that when training insects, the process of building associations is not a simple matter of strengthening connections through reinforcement. Understanding how associations are built between stimuli and behavior gives insight into the nature of learning and could inform the design of artificial "noses," sensor arrays that can detect chemicals in the air.
FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS -- With the sweet smell of barbecued cockroaches wafting through the air, “Chef” Dave Gracer, chopsticks in hand, poked around at a scorpion deep-frying in a pot of canola oil.
Published: Friday, August 22, 2008 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, August 22, 2008 at 3:09 p.m. Just as dusk overtakes the garden (about 8:45 p.m. these days), all of the pale-colored bloomers take center stage and call out to the night-flying insects.
BERLIN Mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus have been found in Berlin, the town's Board of Health announced recently. The board is urging residents to take measures to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes, and to help officials curb the insects' population in town, according to a statement issued by the board. Mosquitoes are most active from dusk to dawn. Draining standing ...
DECATUR - Whether willing or not, plants, other insects and animals, as well as humans, are all being taste-tested by minute pirate bugs. "They are sucking insects," said Phil Nixon, extension entomologist with the University of Illinois.
FAIRBANKS — Tents usually keep bugs out, but the one at the UA Museum of the North was crawling with insects — butterflies, to be exact.
LITCHFIELD - John Baker, a beekeeper at Berry Ledges Apiary in Litchfield, attracted a crowd while speaking about the insects that moved around inside an "observation hive" at the Litchfield Hills Farm-Fresh Market on Saturday, the last day of the season for the market.
A plant-eating predator from Japan could be used to control a superweed spreading throughout the UK, scientists believe.
BURROWING OWL Athene cunicularia Amid the wide-open spaces of western Kansas lives a species of tiny owl unlike any other. Burrowing owls get their name from nesting and roosting in burrows dug by other animals, such as prairie dogs. The 10-inch birds hunt both during the day and night, taking everything from large insects to rodents and an occasional small bird.
A bat survey at National Trust for Scotland shows signs of recovery for the endangered species.
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