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Worker ants of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your fertility




The highly specialized worker castes in ants represent the pinnacle of social organization in the insect world. As in any society, however, ant colonies are filled with internal strife and conflict. So what binds them together? More than 150 years ago, Charles Darwin had an idea and now he's been proven right. (2008-11-20)


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Habitat preferences of butterflies in the Bumbuna forest, Northern Sierra Leone
The habitat preferences of the butterfly fauna were studied in the Bumbuna Forest Reserve in northern Sierra Leone. The intact forest reserve and a secondary forest regrowth, disturbed as a result of slash-and-burn agriculture, were compared to savanna habitats. Of the 290 specimens collected, 195 butterfly species were included, of which significant proportion were Nymphalidae. Of the 147 forest species, 111 (75.5%) showed preferences for the forest habitats, while 70 (47.6%) and 34 (23.1%) preferred disturbed and savannah habitats, respectively. Numerically, a comparable proportion of savannah species were recorded in the 18 disturbed (73.9%) and 16 savannah habitats (63.2%). Accumulated species richness and diversity indices were lower in the disturbed habitats compared to the forest reserve, but lowest in the savanna habitats. However, a large proportion of forest species, especially those with either a more restricted geographic range or species for which no information on geographic distribution was available, were exclusively captured in the forest patches. The survey indicated the presence of a rich butterfly fauna, which should be systematically collected for further research and study in order to build a good taxonomic database for Sierra Leone.
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2 The insect-pest situation in agroforestry. The science of agroforestry is of recent origin, although the practice is age old.
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Burying beetles don't learn from experience - Planet Earth

Planet Earth

Burying beetles don't learn from experience
Planet Earth, UK - Dec 4, 2008
Male burying beetles' choice of mating tactics depends only on their intrinsic sense of how big they are, and not on experiences like fighting and mating, ...
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Spiders and Scorpions
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Electronics firms slow on climate change: Greenpeace (AFP)

Filipino workers assemble mobile telephones on an electronics production line at Laguna Technopark near Manila. Environmental group Greenpeace has assessed the Philippines' 18 biggest consumer electronics firms saying that many are finally taking climate change seriously but have been slow on the uptake.(AFP/File/Jay Directo)AFP - Electronics manufacturers are finally taking climate change seriously but have been slow on the uptake, environmentalists said Tuesday.


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Day 1 - Nothing

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Brian and Joe walk around the park.
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