Murray manages Washington State University’s insect museum, the state’s largest insect collection, with about 3 million ...

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Museum collections hold a wealth of data just waiting to be brought into the digital age. (Gayle Laird, California Academy of ...

The largest bees nest ever seen in Western New York was found in a home in Angola, New York. It was a wasp nest that measured ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers at Dalhousie University are collecting wasp nests to study them for copper and chromium contamination. (Submitted by ...

As winter's snow in Nova Scotia begins to fade — at least temporarily — some researchers at Dalhousie University are asking people to keep an eye out for abandoned paper wasp nests. They are ...

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The book Miniature Giants zooms in on the fascinating lives of insects. From inspiring cockroach-like robots that look for survivors trapped under rubble to moth wingscales inspiring noise-cancelling ...

aren’t the only critters with poison potential. Insects also evolved to use venom as a weapon for warding off attackers or immobilizing prey. But instead of using their fangs as a delivery device, ...