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Springtime has arrived in Imperial Valley, a region renowned for its agriculture, and with it comes the vibrant bloom of ...

A 2020 study found, for example, that bats were the main pollinators of pitayas (dragon fruit), a major crop in central ...

One of these organizations is the Mandai Wildlife Group in Singapore, and they’re celebrating a monumental “baby boom” year. A total of 998 babies across 143 species were born in 2024, the ...

This video makes me itch: up-close footage of a mosquito drinking someone's blood is the kind of thing that I can't stand ...

One of them was a proboscis monkey named Putri ... another of its key breeding efforts focused on the Chrisangi leaf insect, a species native to Singapore, to prevent extinction and support ...

These insects can be quite big ... One interesting feature of the hawk moth is its proboscis. This straw-like structure remains curled up unless it’s time to feed. When a hawk moth comes ...

As they hover above wild tobacco flowers, hawkmoths unfurl their 8cm (3in)-long proboscis to drink up its ... has tended to focus on day-flying insects, but researchers are now probing what ...

Two function like electric knives to cut the skin, two retractable ones create a path for the proboscis (its sucking mouthparts ... "With their lethal weapons, insects and their stings were the apex ...

One of them was Putri, a proboscis monkey whose wild populations ... another of its key breeding efforts focused on the Chrisangi leaf insect, a Markhors, with their wide hooves, are perfectly ...

The hummingbird-size insect has dull, dark wings that are mottled like charred ... hovering to drink nectar. M. sexta’s proboscis, longer than its 2-inch body, stays unfurled, a straw ready to ... Lab ...