A tiny seaport is the world’s third largest importer of Swiss watches — every year, it buys 50 watches for every person in the city. Obviously, the people in these cities are not buying all this merchandise — it is being bought by smugglers. As one expert wrote, "the ingenuity of ...
who believe that having a job is an entitlement, rather than a privilege. They often complain about the work they have (if working), opine the lack of "real lawyer" jobs available in the market, and are critical of the long hours and inadequate pay found at most small firms...
So I often played near and sometimes in that huge dark house made of large dark logs with the largest porch I’d ever seen at the top of Cliff Road. Guest was always closely connected to the place. It seems odd we never met. He was greatly loved and always somehow still alive in ...
The ovipositor is the egg-laying apparatus of female tiger crane flies. It’s a slender, needle-like structure found at the end of the abdomen. The presence and shape of the ovipositor can be a useful clue in identifying tiger crane flies, as it’s quite distinctive from other insects suc...
The California Mantis (Stagmomantis californica) is a fascinating predatory insect native to the western United States, primarily found in California.
I would like to confront the professor with an instance of reasoning power on the part of an insect which cannot be explained away in any other manner. During the summer of 1899, while I was at work on my doctoral thesis, we kept a female wasp at our cottage. It was more like a ...
Periodical cicadas are known for their mass emergence in different regions across eastern North America. One of the largest and most notable broods is Brood X, which covers a wide area across several states. Some of the states and regions impacted by Brood X include: Michigan Georgia New York...
The Asian giant hornet, popularly known as the "murder hornet," has been a source of increasing worry in the United States since they were first spotted here in late 2019. The invasive hornet — the world's largest — can decimate entire hives of honeybees, which are necessary to pollinate...
The Asian giant hornet, popularly known as the "murder hornet," has been a source of increasing worry in the United States since they were first spotted here in late 2019. The invasive hornet — the world's largest — can decimate entire hives of honeybees, which are necessary to pollinate...
In the last decades, the assumption that complex social life is cognitively challenging, and thus can drive mental evolution, has received much support from empirical studies in nonhuman primates. While extending the scope to other mammals and birds, different views have been adopted on what constit...