When a Mosquito Can't Stop Drinking Blood, the Result Isn't Pretty
A mosquito with a severed ventral nerve cord can't sense when it is full, and it will keep on feeding well beyond what its body can hold.
Source: entomologytoday.org
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Out of the murky waters of the Okefenokee, an alligator mystery emerges
Researchers who ply the waters of the Okefenokee Swamp are gnawing on a question that bedevils them: Why are some alligators losing their teeth?
Source: ajc.com
Behind the paper: A bacteria strain that kills males and its co-evolution with its host
In this ‘behind the paper’ post, Ary Hoffmann explains how they found a Wolbachia strain that caused all-female offspring in infected flies and the finding that host genes are able to suppress this phenotype.
Source: plos.org
Gharials, most distinctive of crocs, are most in need of protection, study shows
KATHMANDU — Something occurred to Phoebe Griffith as she observed gharial and mugger crocodiles in and around Nepal’s Chitwan National Park, she recalls. Both crocodiles live in the same environment, and from the neck down they’re everything one would expect a crocodile to look like. But the similarities end there. “Gharials are critically endangered, they […]
Source: mongabay.com
New AI Can Identify Mosquito Species Even After Being Splatted
AI develops the ability to identify the species of splattered insects. For training AI, researchers have accumulated 1500 photos of crushed and unharmed insects. They want to create a smartphone app that can monitor pathogen-causing species.
Source: natureworldnews.com