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but to bring it into line with the world of computers, fly-by-wire and digital technology.

One of the more popular moments at the event was a replay of a videotaped TED 2012 talk by University of Pennsylvania Professor Vijay Kumar on swarming drones, titled"Robots that fly...

because those are actually flies, but butterfly is one word because they aren't flies.

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and Bruce Beutler, an immunologist and mammalian geneticist at The Scripps Research Institute, describes how researchers have used common approaches to tease apart the secrets of immunity in species ranging from fruit flies to rice.

Their overview in Science includes illustrated descriptions of the disease-resistance or immunity pathways in the mouse, Drosophila fruit fly,

One perverse twist of colony collapse that has compounded the difficulty of solving it is that the bees do not just die they fly off in every direction from the hive,

Still unsolved is what makes the bees fly off into the wild yonder at the point of death.

and warbles of wild birds and match them against a database of bird sounds to help the oereader identify the species

A zoo run by flies is such a zoo. No really...When you look at yourself in the mirror,

no toilet and no running water for the five people who live in this mosquito-infested hut in Bamako, the capital of Mali.

free solutions Weve previously mentioned how to repel mosquitoes with plants, and offered vodka-based insect repellent,

For other ways to repel flies, moths, and other bugs, check out the article below. If youve got your own trusty DIY bug repellent solution,

This study shifts the oldest angiosperms back farther in time towards the origin of groups like bees and flies,

The consortium released the 464 megabyte draft genome of the pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum) in the current issue of PLOS Biology. oebecause this is a different kind of insect not a fruit fly, not a beetle,

Spanish fly Empanadas The longstanding legend that oespanish Fly can drive the ladies wild is a dangerous myth.

Less than 24 hours later, a woman walked into the Eldredge Bros. Fly Shop in Maine

And now, instead of ending up on a fly, its going into womens hair, #said Matt Brower, a guide and assistant manager at Idaho Angler in Boise.

A package of the most popular fly tying hackle for hair extensions, a black and white striped feather called grizzly saddle

Mosquito#An estimated 2-3 million fatalities a year Venomous Snakes#An estimated 50,000-125,000 fatalities a year Deer-An estimated 2, 000-4, 000

#CDC Confirms Lemon Eucalyptus oil as Effective as DEET Mosquitoes can be a huge problem. Its easy to say youll never use DEET,

My home state boasts mosquitoes that rival your house pet in size and stature. But even still, many fear the toxicity of DEET and try to avoid it even with those mini-monsters landing on you noon and night.

The CDC confirmed that lemon eucalyptus oil can be as effective as DEET in repelling mosquitoes

when oil of lemon eucalyptus was tested against mosquitoes found in the US it provided protection similar to repellents with low concentrations of DEET.

However, a tiny parasitic wasp from Asia known as a Trissolcus wasp#a bug smaller than a gnat#is showing promise as a possible biological control.

Rarely, leaf miners can become a problem. 9. Carrots Carrots are at their sweetest, crunchiest best when freshly harvested from the garden.

that mutant fruit flies that were missing some of these genes lost the ability to respond to light.

and human biology even as my own research evolved from studying plant responses to light to leukemia in fruit flies. 2. How do think people should change how they think about plants?

For example a Venus Fly Trap needs to have two of the hairs on its leaves touched by a bug in order to shut,

While the short term memory in the venus fly trap is based electricity, much like neural activity,

Although the commentary might seem straight out of the Journal of Ideas That Will Never Fly,

#Parasitic flies attack honeybees turning them into zombies Zombie#fly parasite causing decline of honeybee population.

and potentially devastating parasitic fly that has been taking over the bodies of honeybees (Apis mellifera) in Northern California.

The team performed a genetic analysis of the fly and found that it is the same species that has previously been documented to parasitizie bumblebee as well as paper wasp populations.

#The team found evidence of the fly in 77 percent of the hives they sampled in the Bay Area of California,

#And with the discovery that this parasitic fly has been quietly killing bees in at least three areas,

Parasitic fly larva emerging from a dead bee s neck. Courtesy of John Hafernik The parasitic fly lays eggs in a bee s abdomen.

Several days later, the parasitized bee bumbles out of the hives often at night on a solo mission to nowhere.

and then decapitated from within by other fly larvae from the Apocephalus genus . When we observed the bees for some time the ones that were alive we found that they walked in circles, often with no sense of direction,#Andrew Core,

#Bees from affected hives and the parasitizing flies and their larvae curiously also contained genetic traces of Nosema ceranae, another parasite,

This double infection suggests that the flies might even be spreading these additional hive-weakening factors.

and where the flies are finding the bees in which they lay their eggs. We assume it s

because we don t see the flies hanging around the bee hives#Hafernik said. But it s still a bit of a black hole in terms of where it s actually happening.#

If the parasitic fly is just starting to infect honeybee populations, this could be an important move,

and even shooting mosquitoes. Much of today s work in this area is experimental and sounds more like science fiction than real science,

Cicadas, locusts, crickets, dragonflies, flies are spared not either. While two billion people are perfectly fine with eating insects,

at the tune of#oetwo pounds of flies, maggots and other bugs each year.##Even more fascinating is that we are actually eating them as part of lunch and dinner.

They include everything from making vaccines that don t have to be refrigerated to preventing mosquitos from transmitting malaria.

It had previously been impossible to pack all the things needed to make a robot fly onto such a small structure and keep it lightweight.

meaning it flies without being tethered and without the need for anyone to drive it. We ve been building a larger version of the robot

as long as they get a waiver and fly them within a specific area. We are concerned about any (Unmanned Aircraft Systems) operation that poses a hazard to other aircraft or to people and property on the ground,

along with damselflies whereas true flies (house flies fruit flies etc.)belong to the Order diptera. And is a dragonfly a dragon?

That's probably a more obvious no. Here is a list of seven other imaginative but potentially misleading animal names:

#72,000 Ladybugs Released in Mall of America Ladybug ladybug fly away home the nursery rhyme advises.

A fly-sized robot? A killer cave in Spain? These stories and more made our top picks for the week.</

Antimatter Might Just Fall Up</a p>Flies have tiny wings and even tinier brains yet they are capable of flying swiftly and agilely through even turbulent air.

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and other disasters can expect to see an explosion of shaggy-haired gallinippers(Psorophora ciliata)a type of giant mosquito according to entomologist Phil Kaufman of the University of Florida.</

<a href=http://www. livescience. com/27772-gallinipper-giant-mosquito. html target=blank>Gallinippers! Monster Mosquitoes Poised to Strike Florida</a p

#Coolest Science Stories of the WeekMini black holes images of early birds and talking plants topped our favorite stories this week.</

Anderson is developing tiny foam drone airplanes that fly using a $170 autopilot essentially a brain for the plane that works in any kind of automated vehicle.

In 1966 a farmer said he saw a flying saucer rise up from a swampy area and fly away;

and blowflies helping to reduce the elk herd to an eerie scattered sea of skeletons in the desert.

#Drunk Fruit flies! Lots of Animals Self-Medicate The use of medicine can no longer be considered a solely human trait

And this list runs the gamut with the usual suspects primates chewing on medicinal herbs as well as some more surprising drug-takers such as fruit flies ants

Drunk fruit flies Medication can be taken either in response to an active infection or to prevent future parasitic attacks of an animal

Fruit flies for example will lay their eggs in more alcoholic fruit (produced by natural fermentation) when parasitic wasps are hanging around said Todd Schlenke an Emory researcher who wasn't involved in the review paper.

In the flies increased blood-alcohol content causes the wasp maggot parasites living in their blood to die in a particularly gruesome way by having their internal organs evert outside their bodies through their anuses Schlenke told Livescience.

The 10 Most Diabolical and Disgusting Parasites Whereas the alcohol can have negative effects on the developing flies it also makes infection less likely.

When parasitic wasps are scarce the flies prefer to lay their eggs in less fermented fruit.

The birds that fly through Central park you still have to call them wild the trees that grow in Central park you still have to call them wild he said.

and killing animals we call pests is accepted as easily as swatting flies or mosquitos when they bother you it's

because those who oppose the kill kill kill mentality remain silent and choose to practice slacktivism talking about something

One Mexican free-tailed bat can eat about 1000 mosquitoes per hour. The large colony of 30 million bats in Bracken Cave in Texas consumes about 250 tons of insects every night.

whose symptoms are identifiable from the road including the horse chestnut leaf miner or ash dieback fungus.

Fruit-fly Army Infiltrating California They're here! For the past several decades a stealthy foe has been secretly infiltrating California spreading far and wide.

No they're not Russian spies they're fruit flies. Several species of fly including the Mediterranean fruit fly have been secretly spreading in the state for decades new research finds.

The study published today (Aug 6) in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B also predicts that crop damage resulting from the insect invasion as well as lost trade due to other countries'refusal to import California produce could amount to $1

and Agriculture and the USDA U s. Department of agriculture have launched these tropical fruit flies have become established in the state said study co-author James Carey an entomologist at the University of California Davis. Invasive pest Unlike the harmless gnatlike

Drosophila flies that hover around rotting fruit the conquering fruit flies invading California devour growing fruit and cause major economic damage.

The Mediterranean fruit fly or medfly for instance devastated California crops in 1989. Image Gallery: Striking Images of Locust Swarms To detect the pests agriculture officials in California have placed about 100000 traps across the state.

California also meticulously searches for any hint of the flies in plants and produce that crosses the state border.

In the past agriculture officials believed that each time these flies were found they were coming from outside the state.

whether the flies were locals. His team looked at every single fruit-fly sighting (about 5000) in the last several decades

and used a statistical model to describe the underlying populations. If the insects were being reintroduced every time then fly sightings should be random.

But instead certain types of flies kept cropping up consistently in specific hot spots. For instance the oriental fruit fly has been captured 12 separate times in Anaheim Calif. To Carey's team that indicated that several fruit-fly species were established

New biology The findings suggest that the flies are able to lurk for decades without causing a massive infestation.

In addition the flies'gradual inexorable push into every corner of the state isn't correlated with human migration patterns

and if the populations are already here then completely eliminating the flies isn't possible Carey said.

Where Do Fruit flies Come From? Because trade partners often close their borders to countries with fly infestations the flies'established presence could cost billions in lost revenue

unless California renegotiates trade agreements that include different levels of fly eradication the study suggests.

The finding reveals the importance of doing long-term research on the flies said David Haymer a geneticist at the University of Hawaii who has studied medfly genetics

For instance doing genetic analysis on the flies can reveal whether new sightings are reintroductions or the result of an established population breeding Haymer told Livescience.

We have all these placentals alive today from elephants to shrews from things that fly to things that swim Spaulding said.

Laysan albatross have a wingspan of 6 feet (2 meters) and fly about 50000 miles a year as adults.

especially midges mosquitoes flies beetles and spiders as well as grass seeds and berries. On the wintering grounds

Since the pony had been dead for several days before its body was found there was plenty of time for birds maggots blowflies

Modern-day birds use pygostyles to help them fly but oviraptors were not flying animals they had feathers

The videos showed that falcons fly in such a way that their prey remains motionless in the raptors'sight

Thus homeowners'trendy saltwater pools attract bees like flies to honey. Finally the study researchers found that bees don't seem to sense bitterness.

In what started out as a middle school science project scientists discovered that erythritol the main ingredient in the artificial sweetener Truvia is toxic to fruit flies.

and would not act as a pollutant the researchers said. 10 of the Most Polluted Places On earth Not only does the sweetener kill the flies

The father-son team first tested the method on fruit flies raised in small vials in their home.

They divided the flies into groups and fed them food mixed with the artificial sweeteners Truvia Splenda Equal Sweet'N Low or Pure Via.

The flies that were raised on food containing Truvia had much shorter life spans than flies raised on the other sweeteners.

Flies that ate food without Truvia lived between 38 and 51 days. But the average life span of flies raised on food with Truvia was only 5. 8 days.

Marenda realized it was time to move the experiment out of the house and into the lab and he brought in O'Donnell for help.

Flies that consumed food with either Truvia or erythritol were dead within a week. The other flies lived for two weeks before the researchers discontinued their observation.

The flies consumed more than twice as much erythritol as sucrose when given the choice between the two suggesting that the files preferred the former.

Because of this scientists think erythritol could successfully be used to bait flies and act as an effective insecticide.

The researchers also wanted to know how much erythritol it would take to kill off the flies. Flies that were given food with low levels of erythritol (about 0. 1 grams in 10 milliliters of water) showed no difference in life span than flies raised on food without any erythritol.

But flies that were given food with high levels of erythritol (2. 4 grams in 10 milliliters of water) were dead within two days.

The researchers don't know exactly how erythritol killed the flies but other studies have shown that it can inhibit an insect's ability to absorb nutrients

#Bumblebees Can Fly Higher Than Mount everest Alpine bumblebees have the ability to fly at elevations greater than Mt everest scientists have found.

Bats do us a great service in eating insects like mosquitoes and agricultural pests. They are an important part of our environment.

The only natural migrating population that still exists is a flock that spends its summers in Canada and flies down to the Texas Gulf Coast for the winter.

In the tropics in June the sun is low casting long shadows when the MODIS or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer sensors that fly aboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites snap images

In a study published last year in the journal Primates Samson and Hunt found that mosquitos were less likely to congregate around C. alexandri

In 1979 when I was fending off mosquitoes at the Continental divide the official National park service estimate was down to 75 glaciers

#Can Backpacking Flies Rescue Queensland's Farmers?(Op-Ed) This article was published originally at The Conversation.

Queensland s fruit and vegetable farmers are under pressure having lost their main weapon against their main enemy fruit flies.

and fenthion used by horticulturalists to keep Queensland fruit fly (also called Q-fly) at bay after finding that these chemicals pose an unacceptable risk to human health.

Bizarre as it might sound flies wearing tiny radio-tracking backpacks could help by revealing the fruit flies'movements

less is more as smaller sensors will interfere less with the flies'behaviour. Honeybees are perfect as a starting point for our research as they are social insects that return to the same point

or eradicating fruit fly populations and managing their potential impacts in horticulture production areas. It has already been used with great success around the world

and in South australia to combat the Mediterranean fruit fly. However the development of male-only sterile Q-fly will be a world first.

Despite all our knowledge of fruit flies we do not actually know where they go to reproduce.

By releasing fruit flies with backpacks#that can track their movements we will be able to answer that question which will assist us in targeting where to release the sterile Q-fly males.

and the James river is just part of the area that we fly. For Byrd it's been a great 38 years.

The researchers have identified already a new species of pygmy locust a tiny grasshopper relative and two flies in flagrante.

Other finds include ants beetles wasps midges and mammal hair all crowded together in the amber fragments offering a rich view of the 20-million-year-old forest ecosystem.

We want to switch the current perception of Bangladesh from the iconic vulnerable country where all these journalists fly to to see vulnerability to make it the iconic adaptive country,

and its moons since 2004, will get to fly until 2017, NASA announced on 3 february. The mission was slated originally to come to end in 2008,

The new schedule calls for 155 orbits around the planet, 54 fly-bys of the methane-shrouded Titan and 11 fly-bys of the icy moon Enceladus.

Other scents beckon the truffle fly, which visits the fungus in search of a mate

and to control mosquitoes and blackflies. The cost to treat one child with Bt would be 28 cents, Aroian estimates.

Mosquito spray affects bird reproduction: Nature Newsa widely used microbicide may not be as environmentally friendly as previously thought.

The bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti) is now the most commonly used microbicide to control mosquitoes worldwide

When ingested by water-inhabiting mosquito larvae, toxic proteins produced by Bti cause pores to form in the guts of the larvae,

and is favoured the method of mosquito control in West Africa, the United states and Europe. The handful of previous field studies on its toxicity to vertebrate populations have not found significant adverse impacts.

and her colleagues in the Journal of Applied Ecology provides evidence that mosquito control has effects further up the food chain.

The fall in reproductive success was due to the loss of mosquitoes the birds'preferred food source.

They found that birds inhabiting the control sites predominately ate mosquitoes and midges. But flying ants accounted for a larger proportion of the birds'diet in the treated areas.

where the aim is to reduce mosquito numbers for human comfort rather than for disease control.

Mosquito saliva may signal infection outbreaks: Nature Newsbaiting mosquito traps with cards soaked in honey,

and then analysing VIRAL RNA in saliva left by mosquitoes that feed on them, may be a way of tracking the spread of some diseases.

To assess whether mosquito populations are harbouring dangerous viruses, researchers often use traps baited with carbon dioxide

or light to attract the insects, which are then ground up and subjected to genetic analyses to identify any viruses.

But this procedure does not distinguish between viruses that are confined safely to the mosquitoes'gut

and his colleagues have developed a method for collecting mosquito saliva by allowing the insects to feed on honey-drenched cards placed in a trap filled with carbon dioxide.

The researchers infected mosquitoes in the lab with West Nile Ross River or chikungunya viruses. About 10 days later, they captured more than 90 mosquitoes,

placed each one in a separate vial and allowed them to feed on the honey-soaked cards for 2 days.

They found that many mosquitoes had consumed the honey, and that more than 70%of cards tested positive for the three viruses.

Almost all cards that mosquitoes had fed on tested positive for the viruses they carried. The team next tested their approach in the field.

Their results showed that traps containing honey-soaked cards attracted more mosquitoes than those without cards,

with more than 75%of mosquitoes consuming honey while in the traps. Each week, the team collected cards and trapped mosquitoes and shipped them to a lab,

where they were tested for Ross River and Barmah Forest viruses. VIRAL RNA was found on the cards and in the mosquitoes that fed on the cards.

The approach is promising because it detects viruses only when mosquitoes are capable of transmitting them.

Viruses in mosquito saliva can be transmitted, but those in the gut cannot infect a new host when a mosquito bites.

But the usefulness of the cards may vary according to the mosquito species and the geographical region

van den Hurk says. For instance, Aedes aegypti, which spreads dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever viruses, prefers blood meals over honey.

The kinds of mosquitoes they trapped with this method are not necessarily the most important vectors for some viruses,

says Scott Weaver, who studies virus-mosquito interactions at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.

The method does not indicate which species, or how many mosquitoes, deposited viruses on the cards.

As a result, it would be nearly impossible to quantify the risk of infection on the basis of the amount of VIRAL RNA on the cards

scientists could then use more comprehensive analyses to determine whether the mosquito preys on humans,

and to calculate the infection rate in mosquitoes and assess the potential threat. Next, van den Hurk will compare the sensitivity of the approach with those of other standard methods,

so-named because the embryos of flies with a mutation in the polished rice gene lack the hairs that characteristically decorate the surface of the fruitfly embryo

Dengue control The release of male mosquitoes genetically engineered to be sterile can control dengue fever by suppressing the population of the insects that carry the disease, scientists at Oxitec,

They were reporting the results of a field trial of transgenic Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in a town on Grand Cayman

Malaysia will begin field trials of the mosquitoes in the next few months. See go. nature. com/6rxdjp for more.

Sterile insect releases have already been used to drive down populations of the Mediterranean fruit fly, or Medfly, in Guatemala, Mexico and the United states;

screw-worms in the United states, Central america and Libya; and tsetse flies on the island of Zanzibar, off the coast of Africa.

The technique works best on pests that are not particularly populous. If you have something like aphids or thrips,

The 2. 5-metre, mid-infrared telescope is mounted on the back of a Boeing 747 that flies in the stratosphere above much of the atmospheric water vapour that absorbs infrared light.

NASA's other two shuttles are each due to fly once more this year before the agency's shuttle fleet retires.

Mosquitoes score in chemical war: Nature Newskey weapons in the fight against malaria, pyrethroid insecticides, are losing their edge.

But they have created also intense selection pressure for mosquitoes to develop resistance. Data are coming in thick and fast indicating increasing levels of resistance,

Quick, cheap tests can pick out gene mutations that help the mosquitoes'nerve cells withstand pyrethroid attack. But other forms of resistance,

which depend on increased levels of mosquito enzymes that can destroy pyrethroids before they reach their target,

so that mosquitoes resistant to one would be killed by the other. In areas where pyrethroid bed nets are used,

Research targeting mosquito control is compared grossly underfunded with that on malaria drugs and vaccines she adds,