User: flenvcenter Topic: Biodiversity-Independent
Category: Specific Organisms :: Insects
Last updated: May 19 2013 06:43 IST RSS 2.0
 
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PHOTOS: Amazing Sea Butterflies 19.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
We're consistently impressed by the variety of biodiversity out there, but these sea butterflies are really something else. The creatures, also known as pteropods, were...
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WATCH: Deer Crashes Through Bus Windshield, Escapes Through Door 16.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
Silly deer, that's not how you board the bus! In an amazing piece of raw footage taken Tuesday from a CamTran city bus in Johnstown,...
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WATCH: Eagle Steals Fish 13.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
A fisherman got a winged surprise when a bald eagle swooped in and stole a fish right in front of him. Small problem, the fish...
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Chicken Diapers: Now Your Dinner-To-Be Can Be Civilized 13.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
Are you tired of your delicious meal pooping on your carpet? Do you want your chicken to be the cock of the town? Then get...
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PHOTOS: So That's What A Baby Sloth Bear Looks Like... 13.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
Here’s a recap of animal stories and events from the past few weeks: The carcass of a mystery sea creature washed up on the shore...
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$1 Million Deal For Celebrity Panda 11.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
BANGKOK -- Thailand's celebrity baby panda Lin Ping is almost 4 years old now. It's time to move to China, find a mate and have...
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WATCH: Family Keeps Cheetahs Like Pets 10.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
Here's one family dynamic you should never try to emulate. "Cheetah House," new video posted to YouTube April 25 by Imogen Richards, shows two toddlers...
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Black Widow Myth Reversed 9.5.2013 Wildlife and Habitat Conservation News - ENN
We've all heard of the dreaded Black Widow – no not the Marvel comic super hero, but the infamous spider with a deadly bite that is mainly known for it's sexual cannibalism. Not only do black widow spiders have a venomous bite (with females being up to three times more venomous than males), but the female really lives up to her "black widow" namesake as she will often eat her male partner after mating. However, a new study has shown that the tendency to consume a potential mate is also true of some types of male spider. The study by Lenka Sentenska and Stano Pekar from Masaryk University in the Czech Republic finds that male spiders of the Micaria sociabilis species are more likely to eat the females than be eaten.
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Ignoring Bee Crisis, EPA Greenlights New 'Highly Toxic' Pesticide 9.5.2013 CommonDreams.org Headlines
Despite new findings that prove a heightened crisis in US bee populations and a recent ban in Europe on similar chemical applications, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has decided to further endanger the population Monday by approving a "highly toxic" new pesticide. read ...
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Authorities Rescue Neglected Big Cats From 'Gross' Conditions 7.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A tiger and two mountain lions were among a menagerie of wild cats seized from private farmland in rural northeast Kansas,...
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Rare 'Pink Dolphins' Are In Danger, Conservationists Warn 7.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
Chinese white dolphins, nicknamed "pink dolphins," are rarely spotted in Hong Kong waters. However, the near-threatened species is becoming even more uncommon, and conservationists warn...
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Goat Reveals Playing On A Pig Is The Best Thing Ever (VIDEO) 4.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
The. Best. Thing. Ever....
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'Donald Trump Caterpillar': Flannel Moth Larva Looks Like Real Estate Mogul's ... - Huffington Post 4.5.2013 check 21 - Google News
&#39;Donald Trump Caterpillar&#39;: Flannel Moth Larva Looks Like Real Estate Mogul&#39;s ... Huffington Post An English man named Brian Watson killed a large rat his granddaughter&#39;s boyfriend found while cutting grass on April 21 , <em&gt;<a href="http://news.sky.com/home/strange-news/article/16213384" target="_hplink"&gt;Sky News</a&gt;</em&gt; reports. The water rat was ... and ...
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Neonicotinoid nightmares 3.5.2013 The Earth Times Online Newspaper - Environment News
Pesticide use in increasing with a concurrent loss in the abundance of many animals. Here, a Dutch team discover some new correlations between the two.
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3rd May - World Press Freedom Day 3.5.2013 The Earth Times Online Newspaper - Environment News
Press freeom is vital to democracy. A free, independent and pluralistic media environment, online and offline, must be one in which journalists, media workers, and social media producers can work safely and independently without the fear of being threatened or even killed. It needs to be an environment where attacks, intimidations, harassments, abductions, arbitrary imprisonments, and threats are the exceptions and not the norm.
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Sun Refracts Off Dog's Shiny Bowl, Sparks House Fire: Official 3.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
SANTA ROSA, Calif. -- A Northern California couple might be able to blame this one on the dog. Authorities say sun refracted off the dog's...
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Ancestor of hummingbird and swift 2.5.2013 Earth Times
The North American fossils of humming birds are rare compared to other continents. This fossil is early and provides lots of information relevant to swifts and humming birds.
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Bat predation is affected by odour 2.5.2013 Earth Times
Australian bat experts have placed faeces in artificial roosts to determine how and when the smell attracts predators.
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WATCH: This Breakdancing Dog Has Mad Skills 1.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
There have been quite a few talented dogs in the news lately, but none with moves like Alex the golden retriever. In a video posted...
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Dolphin ecology from the inside out 1.5.2013 The Earth Times Online Newspaper - Environment News
The bottlenose dolphin is the key species to check if strandings and live animals have different stomach contents. This study confirms they have not, which leaves the field clear for extremely valuable research on rare species.
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