| March 24, 2007 | -
Taiwan's
freeway bureau closed 600 yards of highway in Yunlin County in preparation for a massive migration of milkweed butterflies.
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AP via Yahoo! News
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| November 28, 2006 | -
Researchers at the Stealthy Insect Sensor Project at Los Alamos National Laboratory announced that they had developed explosive-sniffing bees.
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CNN
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| September 27, 2006 | - A cloud of locusts descended on Cancun.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| August 23, 2006 | - “Super-sized” yellowjacket nests were infesting southern states.
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Montgomery Adviser
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| August 15, 2006 | -
Colombia began exporting its big-butt queen ants (Hormiga culona), which taste like juicy popcorn when toasted.
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The Penninsula (Qatar)
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| June 26, 2005 | - An Irish man covered himself with 200,000 bees, still 150,000 bees short of the world record.
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BBC News
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| April 14, 2005 | - Entomologists named three newly discovered species of slime-mold beetle after George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld.
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USA Today
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| April 12, 2005 | - Scientists at Yale University used lasers to control headless fruit flies.
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ABC Online
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| April 9, 2005 | - Millions—possibly billions—of butterflies were fluttering towards California.
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Biology News Net
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| March 14, 2005 | -
China took steps to stop an invasion of red ants.
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Reuters
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| March 10, 2005 | - A San Diego woman died when her building was fumigated to kill termites.
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CNN
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| December 23, 2004 | - A new species of monster cockroach was discovered in Indonesia.
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Al Jazeera
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| December 16, 2004 | - Twelve million honeybees died in a Las Vegas freeway accident.
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Associated Press
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| November 21, 2004 | - A plague of locusts, which are kosher, swept through parts of Israel.
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Wired News
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| November 17, 2004 | -
Locusts invaded Cairo.
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Reuters
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| May 12, 2004 | - Trillions of 17-year cicadas were preparing to swarm, mate, and die in the Eastern United States.
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BBC
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| April 6, 2004 | - Scientists discovered that regular consumption of pig whipworm eggs can cure inflammatory bowel disease.
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New Scientist
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| December 9, 2003 | - Scientists were studying the bombardier beetle, which can fire liquid at its enemies from its rear end at up to 300 squirts per second, in the hope of building a better airplane engine.
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New Scientist
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| September 26, 2003 | -
Bedbugs were making a comeback in the United States.
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Associated Press
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| May 11, 2003 | - Federal authorities said that they will permit passengers to take cats, dogs, and other animals, including monkeys, on airplanes for emotional support but not snakes, rodents, or spiders.
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Reuters
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| April 15, 2003 | -
Dr. Leung Pak-yin, the deputy health director of Hong Kong, was not optimistic: “We believe that every citizen could become a carrier of the virus.” Health experts have also speculated that “contaminated objects” could be spreading the disease, and that cockroaches might be tracking contaminated sewage from one apartment to another.
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| January 22, 2002 | -
Biotechnologists were still trying to perfect a goat-spider hybrid.
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| August 14, 2001 | - Mutant spiders were attacking humans in Kazakhstan.
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| November 7, 2000 | - Archaeologists found a largely intact 1,500-year-old single-masted ship on the bottom of the Black Sea; the deep water has little oxygen to support insects that eat wood.
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