Steal Valentine’s ideas from insects!
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February 14, 2014
For the holiday of love, we all look for ideas to impress the object of our affections. Delightful presents, enticing perfumes, delicate attention:...Read more
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Insects: chemists, architects and pharmacists
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January 10, 2014
We’re so often impressed by human inventions. And yet, nature often got their ahead of us, and a long, long time ago. Insects can inspire at any...Read more
United for the monarch
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August 13, 2013
When the Insectarium sounded the alarm confirming that the province’s most recognizable butterfly—the monarch—had virtually disappeared from this...Read more
13-year or 17-year cicadas?
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July 19, 2013
This year, the state of New York witnessed the massive emergence of three species of periodical cicadas, which have a life cycle of 17 years. A few...Read more
The monarch migration: A disappearing phenomenon?
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July 17, 2013
The monarch (Danaus plexippus) is the most recognizable butterfly species in the world. Its annual migration is unique: at the end of the summer,...Read more
Fascinating beetles, including two newly discovered species
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March 15, 2013
Cassidinae: Fascinating little beetles Tortoiseshell beetles constitute a fascinating group of small beetles belonging to the Cassidinae subfamily of...Read more
“The Ant and the Grasshopper”: The real story
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January 18, 2013
Have you ever wondered what insects do in winter, when it is too cold to eat and multiply? Where do they go? The famous Aesop fable “The Ant and the...Read more
Spiders: Fact and fiction
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November 26, 2011
Who hasn’t heard a scary story about spiders? Their mysterious habits, their sometimes strange appearance and our fertile imaginations often make us...Read more
A many-legged roommate: The house centipede!
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June 9, 2011
It might not seem like an ideal roommate at first glance, but the house centipede’s habits cannot be faulted! Scutigera coleoptrata , to give it its...Read more
The return of the bed bug
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April 7, 2011
The many reports and articles about bed bugs in the past few weeks have been hard to ignore… Until recently, this insect was little known among the...Read more
