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Showing posts with label Entomology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Entomology. Show all posts
Monday, 14 October 2024

Refuting Creationism - How A Beetle Evolved To Eat Toxic Plants

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Red milkweed beetle, Tetraopes tetrophthalmus CC BY 2.5 , Link Red milkweed beetle, Tetraopes tetrophthalmus ...
Friday, 4 October 2024

Refuting Creationism - How Ants Were Cultivating Crops 66 Million Years Before 'Creation Week'.

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A lower-fungus-farming worker of the rare fungus-farming ant species Mycetophylax asper , collected in Santa Catarina, Brazil, in...
Wednesday, 26 June 2024

Unintelligent Design - How Painted Lady Butterflies Migrate Thousands of Miles All For Nothing

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Painted Lady, Vanessa cardui Photo credit: Roger Vila Painted Lady, Vanessa cardui div class="credit&...
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Sunday, 26 May 2024

Creationism in Crisis - The Evolution of the 'German' Cockroach Happened Just 2,100 Years Ago.

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Photo: Matthew Bertone and Coby Schal. German cockroach, Blattella germanica Virginia Tech entomologist...
Thursday, 16 May 2024

Evolution News - How Tiger Beetles Have Evolved an Unusual Form of Batsian Mimicry - Or Is This Unintelligent Design?

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Tiger beetles are fierce predators, running quickly after smaller insects and crushing them with their large mandibles. Phot...
Sunday, 28 April 2024

Unintelligent Design - How the Periodic Cicadas Evolved

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17-year cicada, Magicicada septendecim Image: © Ed Reschke-Stone/Getty Images 13-year cicada, Magicada tridecima ...
Sunday, 7 April 2024

Creationism in Crisis - How Rusty Patched Bumblebee Genes Show Evidence of Evolution Under Intense Selection Pressure

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The rusty-patched bumblebee, Bombus affinis Photo by Jay Watson The rusty-patched bumblebee, once common in the Uni...
Friday, 22 March 2024

Creationism in Crisis - How Batesian Mimicry In The Female Diadem Butterfly Evolved - Convergently

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Female Diadem Butterfly, Hypolimnas misippus Photograph: A Coetzer The female Diadem (bottom left) mimics the Afr...
Saturday, 18 November 2023

Creationism in Crisis - Damselflies Evolved Their Colours At Least 5 Million Years Before 'Creation Week'

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The common bluetail damselfly Ischnura elegans Photo: Erik Svensson Common bluetail damselflies, Ischnura elegan...
Thursday, 16 November 2023

Malevolent Designer News - 16 More Nasties For Devotees of the Divine Sadist To Enjoy

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Figure 1. 16 new species of endoparasitic wasps have been added to the group, Loboscelidia , based on their unique physical chara...
Saturday, 4 November 2023

Malevolent Design - Another Dangerous Tick That Can Kill Cattle Is Spreading Fast

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Nymph Adult Asian longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis Asian longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longic...
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Sunday, 23 April 2023

Creationism in Crisis - How Mutations, not Magic, Have Helped Killer Hornets Spread

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Creationism in Crisis How Mutations, not Magic, Have Helped Killer Hornets Spread Asian Yellow-legged hornet, Vespa velutina Newly sequenc...
Sunday, 12 March 2023

Creationism in Crisis - Jewel Beetles Evolved by Gene Duplication

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Creationism in Crisis Jewel Beetles Evolved by Gene Duplication Jewel Beetle, Chrysochroa raja Source: Mounted specimens at Prague Museum. ...
Monday, 6 February 2023

The Humble Earwig - Not a Pest But a Kind And Caring Insect

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The Humble Earwig Not a Pest But A Kind and Caring Insect Forficula auricularia Credit: Pudding4brains / Wikipedia Earwigs are the hero si...