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Posts on ‘April 22nd, 2012’

Sunday Night Movie: the best educational video ever

I have no idea who made this charming little claymation about Yellow Fever, or why, but it’s pretty awesome:

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The eastern ant cricket Myrmecophilus pergandei

If you look closely when opening large ant nests in the northern hemisphere temperate zone, there is a good chance you’ll see ant crickets. These flattened, wingless insects are kleptoparasites living among ant colonies, stealing food and tricking the ants into feeding them. The common species where we live in the midwest is the eastern [...]

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