12 results for “insect”
Animals
Insects
insects, except in films. The largest living insects, such as the giant wetas of New Zealand
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Plants & Fungi
Carnivorous Plants
Insects, however, are packed with them. A plant that could catch an insect and dissolve it would
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Plants & Fungi
Flowers and Pollination
insects, birds and bats. The deal, nectar for pollen delivery, is 130 million years old and feeds
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Animals
Animal Migration
insects use the Sun, correcting for its movement across the sky with an internal clock; monarchs
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Life & Biology
Ecosystems and Food Webs
insects as well. A food web diagram for even a small pond can have hundreds of links
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Plants & Fungi
Trees and Forests
insects almost indefinitely; the oldest known individual germinated nearly 5,000 years ago. Trees have no fixed
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Animals
Reptiles and Amphibians
insects and are themselves food for many birds and mammals, their decline unravels wetland ecosystems. Why it matters
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Life & Biology
Evolution
insects there. All looked like variations on a single mainland species. Charles Darwin spent the next
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Plants & Fungi
Seeds
insects. Then the seed dries, its metabolism slows to almost nothing, and it can remain alive
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Chemistry
Water: The Strangest Ordinary Substance
insects can stand on a pond, and why water climbs up thin tubes, which helps plants
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Animals
Sharks
insects and no animals of any kind on land. Dinosaurs would not appear for another 200 million
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Animals
Mammals
insects in the dark while dinosaurs dominated the day. Their good night vision, keen hearing and sense
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