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Plants use sand armour to break teeth of attacking caterpillars
Some plants are coated in sand, and it seems the sand grains act like medieval armour that protects these 鈥減sammophorous鈥� plants from munching caterpillars
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Grapes of wrath: How a New World import destroyed French wine
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Bumblebees solve the travelling salesman problem on the fly
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How a tiny fly can 鈥榮cuba dive鈥� in a salty and toxic lake
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Gang of ants surgically dismembers large, dead spider on Borneo
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Steep decline of wasps and other flying nasties is a bad sign
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Backyard critters get celeb treatment with glam photo shoots
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Secrets of butterfly wing patterns revealed by gene hacking
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Meet the vampire ant from hell with huge jaws and a metal horn
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鈥楬ighwaymen鈥� beetles rob ants of the food in their stomachs
As jet ant workers carry honeydew back to their nests, beetles approach them and trick them into vomiting up the precious food
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Bee larvae fed beebread have no chance of becoming queen
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A honeybee struggles to escape the grip of a fearsome beewolf
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Lazy ants lay eggs for their industrious sisters to eat
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Maths explains how bees can stay airborne with such tiny wings
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