Tag: Insects
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Does painting cows with stripes prevent fly bites? Researchers who studied this win Ig Nobel prize
A researcher who studied fingernail growth and a group that explored whether painting zebralike stripes on cows reduced fly bites are among the winners of this year’s Ig Nobels
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Discovery of insects trapped in amber sheds light on ancient Amazon rainforest
Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber in South America for the first time
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First Colorado firefly to be raised in captivity emerges at Butterfly Pavilion
“The lightning bugs are back. They fly low to the ground as the lawn dissolves from green to black in the dusk. Seeing them, I can reconstruct a childhood; a hot night under tall trees: The Good Humor Man in his square white truck, the freezer smoky when he reaches inside for an ice cream.”…
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Swarms of miller moths making annual Front Range pilgrimage
It’s miller time. Swarms of fluttering, dusty miller moths will zigzag across the Front Range for at least the next three weeks as they make their annual migration from Colorado’s Southeastern Plains in search of flowers. Whitney Cranshaw, a professor emeritus of entomology at Colorado State University, told The Denver Gazette that drought and late freezes along…
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West Nile virus found in northern Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Mosquitoes collected in Weld County have tested positive for West Nile virus, the mosquito-borne disease that can cause fever and headaches, and in some cases lead to encephalitis, a brain infection. The positive tests represent the first confirmed case of the virus in the Colorado…