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A 2020 study found, for example, that bats were the main pollinators of pitayas (dragon fruit), a major crop in central ...
Hunting for Wild Insects & Crabs! In this video, we venture deep into nature to find dung beetles on trees and catch crabs in the water, preparing them for a unique and delicious grilled insect meal!
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I make no apology for dedicating one of my Nature Diaries to big, black beetles. They have been a source of fascination since ...
According to our first guest today, the secret to maintaining clean water and sustainable pastures lies right under our feet - dung beetles.
Known for spending much of its life underground, the little-known American burying beetle could hold the key to developing the next generation of antibiotic treatments.  For the past two decades, ...
Tiny insects but nature’s strongest lifters that can pull weight up to one thousand than their weight. Don’t go by their size ...
The little biting bugger buffalo fly, Haematobia irritans exigua, well known on the Far North Coast, are on the wing south ...
The statistics the researchers compiled show the use of three types of drugs that work against internal worms and external ...
While on a hike with her family, a child stumbled across a 3,800-year-old Egyptian amulet. It will go on display in an ...
Archaeologists have said a stone found by a three-year-old girl connects us to a 'grand story' from the Bronze Age ...
A 3-year-old girl on a family walk picked up an interesting-looking pebble that turned out to be a 3,800-year-old amulet. The ...