A tree frog (Dryophytes japonica) spitting out a male wasp (Anterhynchium gibbifrons) after being stung (by pseudo-stings), undated. Male wasps use genitalia to sting their predators. (Current Biology/Sugiura et al., NewsX/Bee)
Illustrative image of a bumblebee on flower, undated. (NewsX/Bee)
Self-Pollinating Plant Suffers Genetic Variation Loss If Separated From Bumblebees
UMass Amherst research assistant Fiona MacNeill trimming one of the 105,000 flowers in undated photo. Certain physical traits of flowers affect the health of bumblebees by enabling the transmission of a harmful pathogen, research at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has shown. (Ben Barnhart, NewsX/Bee)
Flower Petal Size Affects Spreading Of Bumblebee Parasite
Picture shows Martin Giurfa, an expert on Experience-Dependent Plasticity in Insects, undated. The study - established by Prof Giurfa and four co-authors - entitled "An insect brain organizes numbers on a left-to-right mental number line" has been published by the scientific magazine PNAS. (NewsX/Bee)