Category: Bugs
Cataglyphis fortis.
Desert ants that navigate by counting their steps. (via)
Post date: Saturday, July 1st, 2006.
BIOLOCH.
Project that designs robots bio-inspired by the locomotion of lower animal forms has developed a paddle worm robot that can navigate through the gut of a pig.
Post date: Tuesday, June 6th, 2006.
Mosquito Repeller Necklace.
Necklace that transmits a sonic frequency that repels mosquitoes. (via)
Post date: Thursday, May 25th, 2006.
Insbot.
Matchbox-sized robot laced with pheromones that can influence the collective behavior of cockroaches. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, May 9th, 2006.
Artificial compound eye.
Bioengineers used an array of 8700 hexagonal microlenses to successfully mimick the honeycomb pattern of an insect eye.
Post date: Thursday, April 27th, 2006.
Organic biopesticides.
Pest control using selectively bred microorganisms instead of chemicals to kill bugs.
Post date: Tuesday, April 11th, 2006.
MOSCAMED.
Rearing facility that sterilizes 2.7 billion medflies a week and air drops them back into the wild.
Post date: Tuesday, March 28th, 2006.
Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems.
DARPA is seeking a contractor to build robot insects that can be remote-controlled.
Post date: Thursday, March 16th, 2006.
Polyrhachis sokolova.
Scientists discover swimming ants. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, March 15th, 2006.
Transgenic mosquito.
Researchers have engineered mosquitoes to be resistant to infection by dengue fever virus.
Post date: Thursday, March 9th, 2006.
Pavlov’s cockroaches.
Japanese scientists discover that cockroaches have conditioned responses.
Post date: Wednesday, March 8th, 2006.
Mormon crickets.
Insects that organize into a massive cannibalistic swarm when deprived of food. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, February 28th, 2006.
Cellulosic ethanol.
Usuable energy produced cheaply and easily from farm waste digested in termite guts.
Post date: Tuesday, February 14th, 2006.
Lateral gene transfer.
Post date: Friday, February 3rd, 2006.
Dactylopius coccus costa.
Insect that is ground up and used as red dye in food and cosmetics.
Post date: Sunday, January 29th, 2006.
Tandem running.
Ants learn how to find food by being taught by other ants.
Post date: Wednesday, January 11th, 2006.
Robo-roach.
Japanese roaches have been surgically implanted with ‘micro-robotic backpacks’ that control their movements. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, January 11th, 2006.
Drosophila melanogangsters.
Harvard research program dubbed Fruit Fly Fight Club pits fruit flies fighting against one another, with video. (via)
Post date: Thursday, December 29th, 2005.
Anti-freezing fleas.
Canadian snow fleas found to contain proteins that lower the freezing point of liquids.
Post date: Thursday, October 20th, 2005.
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