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Beetles Release Anti-Aphrodisiac, To Repel Mating Attempts After Birth
After a female burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides, eggs hatch, the beetle will go through a temporary period of infertility. When...
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Behavioural metamorphosis of Locusts
Desert Locusts have been described as a having a natural ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ – style behavioural change. Going from anti-social locusts to...
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Australia's largest stick insect!
Melbourne Museum has successfully bred some of the world's largest stick insects, in the Australian captive breeding program, in which...