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Photo: Image Source / Getty Images Something Funny Happened When Scientists Tried to Make People Look at Spiders
It can’t get you if you don’t look.
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Photo: Andreyuu / Getty Images Humans Are Causing Ant Colony Civil Wars
We’re accidentally turning ants’ hyper-functional, ultra-cooperative societies paranoid and aggressive.
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Mathisa_s/Getty Images These Baby Butterflies Speak Ant—and Use It to Trick the Colony Into Taking Care of Them
A new study suggests that some butterfly caterpillars infiltrate ant colonies by mimicking the scent and sounds of ants.
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Photo: Ирина Мещерякова / Getty Images Your Dog’s Poop Has an Unexpected Effect on the Insects That Eat It
Maybe your dog’s meds are doing too good a job?
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A fruit fly, one of the parasitic worm's favorite victims. Photo: nechaev-kon / Getty Images

