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Capturing Deer Safely With Minimal Trauma Using New Apparatus
A new portable device allows
researchers to humanely trap
deer and other wildlife as
part of field studies to
control ticks and other
parasites. ... > full story
Spiders Who Eat Together, Stay Together -- And Form Enormous Colony Sizes
The ability to work together
and capture larger prey has
allowed social spiders to
stretch the laws of nature
and reach enormous colony
... > full story
Tick And Mosquito Repellent Can Be Made Commercially From Pine Oil
A naturally-occurring
compound prepared from pine
oil that seems to deter
mosquito biting and repels
two kinds of ticks has been
... > full story
Lyme Disease Bacterium Came From Europe Before Ice Age
The bacterium responsible
for Lyme disease, Borrelia
burgdorferi, originated in
America, or so researchers
thought. Now, however,
scientists has shown that
... > full story
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Spider Silk Can Be Stretchy Like Springs Or Like Rubber
June 5, 2008 — Spider silks are incredibly stretchy, but are they stretchy like elastic or springs? The answer lies in their amino acid content. Spider silks are made from proteins, and biologists have just ... > full story -
Mice Mothers Devote Energies To Offspring When Life Is Threatened
May 29, 2008 — Sick female deer mice devote their energy to producing healthier offspring. Deer mice offspring of infected mothers were bigger, meaning they are more likely to survive and reproduce. This finding ... > full story -
Ponderosa Pine Forests Need Thinning Or Controlled Burns To Keep Old-Growth Characteristics
May 16, 2008 — Preliminary findings in one of the first landscape-scale experiments on how forest management affects western Ponderosa pine ecosystems have been completed. The results suggests that in the absence ... > full story -
Biologists Names New Spider After Neil Young
May 8, 2008 — A biologist has brought his admiration of Neil Young to a whole new class. Or species, to be exact. A professor of biology has named a newly discovered trapdoor spider, Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi, ... > full story -
Female Jumping Spiders Find Ultraviolet B Rays 'Sexy'
May 6, 2008 — Scientists have found the first evidence of an animal using ultraviolet B (UVB) rays to communicate with other members of its species. In a series of mate choice experiments with the Chinese jumping ... > full story -
Mercury In River Moves Into Terrestrial Food Chain Through Spiders Fed To Baby Birds
April 20, 2008 — Songbirds feeding near the contaminated South River are showing high levels of mercury, even though they aren't eating food from the river itself, according to a new article in Science. Mercury is ... > full story -
Lingering Bacteria Don't Indicate Chronic Lyme Disease
April 3, 2008 — The bacteria that cause Lyme disease can linger in mouse tissues long after a full round of antibiotic treatment is completed. The scientists caution that the discovery does not suggest the presence ... > full story -
Living Upside-down Shapes Spiders For Energy Saving
March 26, 2008 — Consider the possible effects of the peculiar lifestyle of numerous spider species, which live, feed, breed and "walk" in an upside-down hanging position. According to new research, such ... > full story -
Unlocking The Psychology Of Snake And Spider Phobias
March 24, 2008 — Researchers have unlocked new evidence that could help them get to the bottom of our most common phobias and their causes. Hundreds of thousands of people count snakes and spiders among their fears, ... > full story -
Lyme Disease Can Be Prevented With New Shot, Study Suggests
March 20, 2008 — Lyme disease is the blight of countryside users but it may be prevented with a single injection, according to research in the Journal of Medical Microbiology. Researchers found that a new formulation ... > full story
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