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		<title>Garden Insects of North America: Ultimate Guide to Backyard Bugs, New Edition</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/12/22/garden-insects-north-america-ultimate-guide-backyard-bugs-new-edition/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2017 17:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[field guide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Identification Guide]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[BOOK NOTE: I interrupt this book review to note that Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman is currently available, again, as a Kindle book, for two bucks. And now returning to our regularly scheduled review. Garden Insects of North America: The Ultimate Guide to Backyard Bugs is not a pocket field guide. How &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/12/22/garden-insects-north-america-ultimate-guide-backyard-bugs-new-edition/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Garden Insects of North America: Ultimate Guide to Backyard Bugs, New Edition</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>How Does the Asian Fruit Fly Ruin Crops? And How Do We Stop It?</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/03/09/how-does-the-asian-fruit-fly-ruin-crops-and-how-do-we-stop-it/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2017 10:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Asian fruit fly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drosophila]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insects]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is some interesting new research out on the Asian Fruit Fly, Drosophila suzukii. The short version: This sort of fruit fly ruins fruit crops because it prefers to, and is able to, lay its eggs on harder, firmer, unrotten, and, essentially, ripe fruit, thus ruining it. Regular fruit flies focus on rotten fruit such &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/03/09/how-does-the-asian-fruit-fly-ruin-crops-and-how-do-we-stop-it/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">How Does the Asian Fruit Fly Ruin Crops? And How Do We Stop It?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>How ants navigate homeward &#8211; forward, backward, or sideward</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/01/19/how-ants-navigate-homeward-forward-backward-or-sideward/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Ants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neurobiology]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got this press release that will be of interest to many: An international team including researchers at the university of Edinburgh and Antoine Wystrach of the Research Centre on Animal Cognition (CNRS/Université Toulouse III—Paul Sabatier) has shown that ants can get their bearings whatever the orientation of their body. Their brains may be smaller &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/01/19/how-ants-navigate-homeward-forward-backward-or-sideward/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">How ants navigate homeward &#8211; forward, backward, or sideward</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>How do insects walk on water?</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/10/19/how-do-insects-walk-on-water/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2016 13:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water walking]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A new study illuminates this shadowy question. First, the video: And now, a press note from the American Chemical Society: Water striders&#8217; ability to walk and jump on the surfaces of ponds and lakes has long amazed curious observers — and inspired robot designers who want to mimic the bugs&#8217; talent. Now, scientists have measured &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/10/19/how-do-insects-walk-on-water/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">How do insects walk on water?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The European Honey Bee Shortage</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/01/09/the-european-honey-bee-shortage/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2014 19:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Colony Collapse Disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[honey bee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insects]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bioscience for the future has an update o the bee situation in Europe. Europe has 13.4 million too few honeybee colonies to properly pollinate its crops, according to new research from the University of Reading. The discovery, made by scientists at the University&#8217;s Centre for Agri-Environmental Research (CAER), shows that demand for insect pollination is &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/01/09/the-european-honey-bee-shortage/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The European Honey Bee Shortage</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Magic of Butterfly Scales (and Pixie Dust)</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/12/03/the-magic-of-butterfly-scales-and-pixie-dust/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2013 14:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Butterfly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scanning Electron Microscopy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is a cool two part Youtube video that explains a lot of interesting science. Part I: Part II:]]></description>
		
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		<title>Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/05/06/16554/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 19:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[ccd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[honey bee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insects]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[We recently discussed news from the EU on banning neonicotinoid pesticides in order to stem the so called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) among honey bees. Bug Girl has an important guest post on the phenomenon of CCD by bee expert Doug Yanega. This is a must read not only for those interested in bees and &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/05/06/16554/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>EU will ban neonicotinoid pesticides to save the honey bees</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/04/29/eu-will-ban-neonicotinoid-pesticides-to-save-the-honey-bees/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Colony Collapse Disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[honey bees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neonicotinoid]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Being a bee is hard. I&#8217;m speaking specifically of the honey bee, Apis mellifera, the one that produces the honey you buy in the store. Many insects, and other critters, eat by finding food and then eating it, and then they do that for a while and now and then reproduce by finding a mate, &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/04/29/eu-will-ban-neonicotinoid-pesticides-to-save-the-honey-bees/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">EU will ban neonicotinoid pesticides to save the honey bees</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>How to Identify Dragonflies and Damselflies</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/07/16/how-to-identify-dragonflies-and-damselflies/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insects]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I want to tell you about a cool book, but first, here&#8217;s something interesting about Dragonflies. Terrestrial animals (like humans) require long chain fatty acids but don&#8217;t synthesize them from basic parts. Higher terrestrial plants don&#8217;t make the biggest of these molecules either, but plants do make molecules that can be turned into things like &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/07/16/how-to-identify-dragonflies-and-damselflies/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">How to Identify Dragonflies and Damselflies</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Do Neonicotinoid Pesticides Contributed to the Complex Thing We Call Bee Colony Collapse?</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/03/30/bee-colony-collapse-could-be-c/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[colony collapse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[honey bee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pesticide]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A commonly used insecticide, and possibly an increasingly widely used form of that pesticide, could be a causal factor in bee colony collapse. It is not 100% certain that this pesticide&#8217;s effects can be counted as one of the causes this problem, but there is a very good chance that neonicotinoids can cause a drop &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/03/30/bee-colony-collapse-could-be-c/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Do Neonicotinoid Pesticides Contributed to the Complex Thing We Call Bee Colony Collapse?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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