arthropods
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Glow-Worms Can’t Find Their Spark Under Harsh Light Pollution
Nights on Earth are getting brighter with the spread of human light pollution, reducing humankind’s visibility of the cosmos. But the brightening night is also messing with glow-worms, spunky insects that rely on their luminous abdomens to procreate.
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The ‘Deadliest Catch’ Disappears: Alaska’s Snow Crabs Have Vanished
Snow crab fishing season in Alaska’s Bering Sea has been cancelled for the first time in history. Bristol Bay’s red king crab fishery will also be closed, for the second year in a row. Both decisions follow shellfish surveys that revealed startling population collapses.
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Researchers Could Lure Murder Hornets to Their Deaths with Sex
Birds do it, bees do it — even the wasps that kill bees do it. A clever team of scientists now has an idea to use the Asian giant hornets’ horniness against them, in hopes of stopping the invasive species from decimating U.S. bee populations. They’ve identified the sex pheromones of the queen and propose…
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Here’s One of the Creepiest Things You Could Catch While Fishing
Wildlife officials in Texas recently documented a peculiar natural horror: a fish with its tongue replaced by a parasitic crustacean known as an isopod. These isopods aren’t dangerous to humans and are usually not deadly to their hosts, but their unique way of life is another example of the terrors created through evolution.