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Ants in the pants drive birds away from choice fruit: supercolonies of invasive insects spoil avian picnics
Dubbed "yellow crazy ants" by people, an invasive ant drives birds crazy too. Nicknamed for their wild scurrying, the ants keep birds from eating...
Science News, 10/10/09 by Susan Milius · More from publication -
Fruity whiffs can mask the scent of carbon dioxide for flies, mosquitoes: study suggests new approach to making insect repellents
Fruit flies actually have a love-hate thing with the smell of fruit. And a new insight into the chemistry of that relationship could lead to novel...
Science News, 09/26/09 by Susan Milius · More from publication -
Google works on a different web; ranking system inspires algorithm for predicting extinctions
Ecologists are taking a page, and its ranking, from Google. A new algorithm inspired by the search engine works well for predicting which species...
Science News, 09/26/09 by Susan Milius · More from publication -
Tree keeps vigil for extinct moa; leaves may have defended against big, chomping birds
Odd shape shifts and color changes during a New Zealand tree's lifetime may be a botanical form of paranoia. Skinny, mottled-brown early leaves...
Science News, 09/12/09 by Susan Milius · More from publication -
To sing or not to sing
A new study may help explain why birdsong is more of a guy thing in temperate regions but plenty of females join the chorus in the tropics. Jordan...
Science News, 09/12/09 by Susan Milius · More from publication -
Forest birds' wings get makeover, courtesy of evolutionary processes: logging, recovery may play role in the degree of pointiness
When trees fall in the forest, unheard or not, they may reshape birds' wings. As logging whittled away at Canada's vast boreal forest during the...
Science News, 09/12/09 by Susan Milius · More from publication -
Doesn't cluck like a chicken
Sage grouse have unexpected vocal anatomy. Though they belong to the group of galliform birds that includes chickens, sage grouse have a...
Science News, 09/12/09 by Susan Milius · More from publication -
Traffic moves baritone birds
Traffic noise may drive birds with low-pitched songs away from forests. Of eight species surveyed in a new study, the two with the songs most...
Science News, 09/12/09 by Susan Milius · More from publication -
Bent tissue strip gives orchid kick; study dissects how plants hit bees with pollen masses
Like some people, Catasetum orchids get rough because they're bent out of shape. Male flowers in this tropical genus don't wait for a visiting...
Science News, 08/29/09 by Susan Milius · More from publication -
Nod-for-me potion
A notorious invader called the tree of heaven may have an unusual way of outsourcing some of its nutrient-finding efforts. The Ailanthus altissima...
Science News, 08/29/09 by Susan Milius · More from publication
