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Ancient, Parasitic Wasp Used Its Rear End Like a Venus Flytrap to Catch Insects and Lay Its Eggs on Them, Study Suggests
Researchers named the parasitic creature Sirenobethylus charybdis —both after the sirens of Greek mythology that lured in ...
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Do Insects Have Consciousness?
After all, insect brains are tiny and have just a million or so neurons, compared with a human’s average of 86 billion. Like many of ... microelectrodes to look at fly brain activity, to ...
Venus flytrap wasp? Scientists find ancient insect preserved in amber that snatched prey
The wasp’s flaps and teeth-like hairs resemble the structure of the carnivorous Venus flytrap plant, which snaps shut to ...