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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 560

insects

Samples of garden ants concealed in syringes are presented to court as two Belgian nationals, a Vietnamese and a Kenyan national appeared for the hearing of their case, after they pleaded guilty to illegal possession and trafficking of garden ants, at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) Law Courts, in Nairobi, Kenya, April 15, 2025. (REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi)
April 17, 2025, 11:23 am
Kenya says it busted plot to smuggle giant ants for exotic animal market
Four suspected foreign smugglers charged, as agents say they uncovered attempt to traffic thousands of rare insects, including queen ants, out of the country
By edwin waita and monicah mwangi
Oriental hornets feeding on a fig fruit. (Prof. Eran Levin)
October 28, 2024, 1:25 pm
Buzzed but never drunk: Research shows Oriental hornets defy alcohol’s effects
Tel Aviv University team believes surprise findings could be used to develop new models for studying alcoholism
By Sue Surkes
Drone bee orchid, Ophrys holosericea, seen near to the Rakit parking lot in the Carmel mountains, May 7, 2022. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel).
May 8, 2022, 6:26 pm
If it looks like a bee and smells like a bee, it may be a flower
In extraordinary example of evolution, bee orchids trick male bees into ‘mating’ with them, to help disperse pollen
By Sue Surkes
Fire ants. (Cabezonication, at iStock by Getty Images)
January 24, 2021, 1:17 pm
Ministry publishes map of fire ant-infected plant nurseries
With gardening season approaching, buyers are asked to isolate new plants for several hours to check for invasive insect that threatens local biodiversity, has burning sting
By Sue Surkes
A bee sits on an iris flower near the town of Zichron Yaakov in northern Israel, February 4, 2017. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)
January 20, 2021, 6:40 pm
Israeli researchers find a new bee species, amid worries about declining swarms
Little known about Lasioglossum dorchini, found in Alexander Stream National Park during research into best ways of rehabilitating habitats stunted by planted eucalyptus trees
By Sue Surkes
Dozens of Formosan termites eat wood at the lab where Nan-Yo Su, a professor of entomology at the University of Florida in Davie, conducts experiments, March 2, 1998. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
September 23, 2020, 6:07 pm
Spectacularly destructive ‘super-termite’ arrives in Israel for first time
Confirmed in the central city of Petah Tikva, the Formosan termite has a ravenous appetite for wood, lives in huge colonies and has never been totally eradicated in any country
By Sue Surkes
This Dec. 30, 2019 photo provided by the Washington State Department of Agriculture shows a dead Asian giant hornet in a lab in Olympia, Washington (Quinlyn Baine/Washington State Department of Agriculture via AP)
May 8, 2020, 7:31 am
Bug experts dismiss worry about US ‘murder hornets’ as hype
Entomologist May Berenbaum says mosquito is in fact the scariest insect, which WHO says causes millions of yearly deaths worldwide from malaria, dengue fever and other diseases
By Seth Borenstein
Swarms of grasshoppers in Moshav Alonei Habashan in the Golan Heights, northern Israel, June 4, 2019. (Kan screenshot)
June 5, 2019, 6:58 pm
Grasshoppers swarm into Israel from Syria
Unusually large numbers decimate vegetables in Moshav Alonei Habashan on Golan Heights, lay hundreds of thousands of eggs in soil
By Sue Surkes
The Calosoma olivieri beetle. (Dr. Uri Shalom, Ministry of Environmental Protection)
April 29, 2019, 5:42 pm
Beetles invade Israel, but ministry says let them be
All together now: Swarms of big, black and annoying — but harmless — Calosoma olivieri beetles are infesting Israel
By ToI Staff
A sandfly (CC BY-SA Commander Applebery/Flickr)
July 19, 2018, 12:02 pm
Disease-spreading flies torment West Bank, northern Israel
Local authorities concerned by growing number of cases of leishmaniasis, caused by a parasite borne by sandflies and resulting in open sores, skin lesions
By ToI Staff
Compound eyes of a modern-day bee. (Gewoldi/iStock, by Getty Images)
December 10, 2017, 9:38 am
‘Oldest-ever eye’ revealed in 530-million-year-old fossil
Ocean-dwelling creature could make out predators and obstacles; had compound eyes similar to today’s bees, but no lenses
By Sue Surkes
A black soldier fly. (Courtesy BioBee Biological System)
December 4, 2017, 6:14 pm
Israeli researchers angling to use flies as fish, animal food
BioBee Biological System says black soldier fly larvae are an excellent source of quality protein and fats
By Stuart Winer
Flies seen at sunset. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
October 19, 2017, 3:17 am
Drastically falling insect numbers could cause ‘ecological Armageddon’ — study
Warning of global crisis, new research shows flying insects have decreased by more than three-quarters across Germany since 1989
By AFP and ToI Staff
The Coloborhynchus spielbergi dinosaur is named after Steven Spielberg. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
June 7, 2016, 8:56 pm
13 insects and other organisms named after Jews
Arachnid named after Spiderman actor Andrew Garfield, a moth for Harry Houdini, and dinosaur for Jurassic Park director Steven Spielberg
By Gabe Friedman
Dror Tamir offers one of Steak TzarTzar's edible grasshoppers to potential tasters. The company was one of the Israeli start-ups at FoodTech Nation, December 15, 2015 (Courtesy)
July 8, 2015, 4:56 pm
Bugs could be answer to food crisis, Israeli start-up says
Israeli firm aims to be the first to farm edible insects, using high-tech methods; protein source to be marketed in the West
By Luke Tress
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