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The world’s largest tree is located in California’s Sequoia National Park which sees tourists from all over the world come and pay a visit to admire the famous sequoia tree. The General Sherman tree has a trunk volume of a whopping 1,487 metres cubed, making it the world’s largest tree by volume. No one has ever […]
What does the Declaration of Independence have in common with Vincent van Gogh’s sketches? The ink used to produce them came from wasps. From pests to products, insects have played an enormous role in human history. Entomologist and animal behaviorist Barrett Klein encourages a historical and scientific perspective on these creatures and invites us to […]
Earth isn’t doing so great. Thanks to human-induced climate change, the seas are warming and rising, while the land – in many places – is alternately choked in drought or inundated with floods. As for us humans, we are engaged in warfare on multiple continents, far-right movements are ascendant across the world and, as of […]
When England’s team exposed caterpillars to electric fields similar to those generated by a flying wasp, caterpillars displayed defensive behaviors such as coiling, flailing, or biting. “This basically insinuates,” England said, that “prey and predator can detect each other just using static electricity.” Dornhaus, the behavioral ecologist, questioned whether electroreception buys the caterpillar much time. […]
Madeleine Finlay hears from Ted Schultz, curator of ants at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, about his recent study into the origins of fungi farming in ants. He tells Madeleine about the incredibly complex way that ants cultivate and protect their fungi gardens, and how the asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years […]
A super-fast super fly with wings that beat more than 300 times per second, a moth that migrates nearly 1,000 kilometres each spring, or a well-dressed native bee that is a pollinator extraordinaire? What will be the first ABC Insect of the Year? The ABC has begun its quest to find out which native six-legged […]
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