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6 December 2011 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Insect Invader Rubs Shoulders With Ants

by Karl Gruber

Silverfish coats itself in ant smell to avoid detection

1 December 2011 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Wasps Spot Familiar Faces

by Daniel Strain

Paper wasps learn to tell two insects apart quickly by their visage alone

22 November 2011 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Toxic Spider Webs Keep Ants at Bay

by Traci Watson

Chemical compound helps arachnids protect their catches

18 November 2011 | ScienceNOW

Podcast: Tractor Beams, Leonardo’s Trees, and More

by David Grimm and Stewart Wills

Listen to a roundup of some of our favorite stories from this week

18 November 2011 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Amoeba-Sized Insect Is Missing Some Pieces

by Karl Gruber

Most fairy wasp neurons lack a nucleus

16 November 2011 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Avoid the Blinking Light

by Karl Gruber

A firefly's flashes attract predators—until they learn their lesson

15 November 2011 | ScienceNOW

Video: Cricket Weapon Doubles as Mate Catcher

by Karl Gruber

Modified hind legs stab males and hook females

8 November 2011 | ScienceNOW

Video: Hoverflies 'Shift Gears' to Fly

by Sara Reardon

High-speed video hints at how complex wing flapping works

8 November 2011 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: A 44-Million-Year-Old Hitchhiker

by Elsa Youngsteadt

Digital dissection of a fossil reveals a mite clinging to a spider

28 October 2011 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Spider Foreplay

by Karl Gruber

When it comes to fooling around, females benefit but males lose out

21 October 2011 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: An Anti-Aphrodisiac

by Karl Gruber

Male plant bugs deposit a compound on females that keeps other males away

6 October 2011 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Crickets Risk Their Lives for Mates

by Daniel Strain

Male bugs open themselves up to predation to safeguard females

27 September 2011 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Coloring in Prehistoric Bugs

by Daniel Strain

Fossilized beetles may look more red than they should

14 September 2011 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: A Shield Made of Eggs

by Daniel Strain

Thin, outer eggs may protect those below from attack by parasitic wasps

2 September 2011 | ScienceNOW

Podcast: Ancient Superbugs, Mind-Controlling Microbes, and More

by David Grimm and Kerry Klein

Listen to a roundup of some of our favorite stories from this week

26 August 2011 | ScienceNOW

Podcast: Bedbug Mating, Climate-Driven Wars, and More

by David Grimm and Kerry Klein

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26 August 2011 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: The 'I' in Ant

by Carrie Arnold

When picking new digs, individuals rule

25 August 2011 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Breathless Caterpillars Await Molting

by Amy Dusto

Suffocating brings on skin shedding

12 July 2011 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Female Crickets Hear Everything

by Yasmin Ogale

Study explains how insects keep track of the changing calls of potential mates

7 July 2011 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: 'Beehive Fences' Keep Elephants Out

by Virginia Morell

Unusual strategy could ease tensions between pachyderms and farmers in Africa

1 July 2011 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Old Spiders Weave Messy Webs

by Michael Price

Arachnids are just as prone as humans to the mental ravages of old age

30 June 2011 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Tiny Bug Makes a Riot With Its Privates

by Michael Price

Water boatman is world's loudest animal relative to its size, thanks to a little help from its sex organ

21 June 2011 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Ladybugs as Bodyguards

by Sarah C. P. Williams

Parasites protect themselves by keeping their ladybug hosts alive

9 June 2011 | ScienceNOW

Underwater Spider Spins Itself an Aqualung

by Sara Reardon

A water spider's "diving bell" is a gill that lets it live beneath the surface

16 May 2011 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Spiders' Silk Slippers Help Them Stick

by Sara Reardon

Tarantulas can shoot silk threads from their feet to help them climb

4 May 2011 | ScienceNOW

Treehopper Camouflage Derives From Ancestral Wing

by Elizabeth Pennisi

Extra appendage morphed into novel trait

29 April 2011 | ScienceNOW

Podcast: Crowd Quakes, Fire Ant 'Rafts,' and More

by Sara Reardon and Robert Frederick

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25 April 2011 | ScienceNOW

Fire Ants Surf Floods on Rafts of Their Own Bodies

by Catherine Meyers

Thousands of ants link together to trap air and repel water

19 April 2011 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Jurassic Spider Not So Itsy Bitsy

by Sara Reardon

Largest fossil arachnid ever discovered may have influenced insect evolution

4 April 2011 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: The Earliest Touchdown

by Jennifer Carpenter

An ancient insect's messy landing has been preserved for the ages

1 April 2011 | ScienceNOW

Podcast: Ant-Flinging Wasps, How to Fold a Steel Shopping Bag, and More

by David Grimm and Robert Frederick

Listen to a roundup of some of our favorite stories from this week

15 February 2011 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: A Spider That Likes Stinky Socks

by Jennifer Carpenter

Arachnid's curious fetish may help it catch mosquitoes

14 February 2011 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Too Sexy? Too Bad

by Sara Reardon

Natural selection limits how many attractive males can exist in a population

6 February 2011 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Fly Brains Now in Technicolor

by Sara Reardon

Genetically engineered flies have a red-green-blue color system in their neurons

14 December 2010 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: The Secret of the Glowing Snail

by Jennifer Carpenter

Shell amplifies mollusk's internal light

13 December 2010 | ScienceNOW

Video: Sleepy Bees Lose Their Rhythm

by Jennifer Carpenter

Bee's waggle dance is less precise when sleep deprived

10 December 2010 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Cockroaches Prefer Right Turns

by Catherine Meyers

Finding could help engineers design roach-robot hybrids

9 December 2010 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Whistling Caterpillars Shake Off Predators

by Jennifer Carpenter

High-pitched sound scares birds away

3 December 2010 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Mean Spiders Make Good Mommies

by Susan Young

Antisocial arachnids do better as single parents than their friendly counterparts

19 November 2010 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Worm Goo's Sticky Secret

by Nadia Drake

Self-organizing proteins create a cage around prey

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