Archive for the 'Bugs' Category

Oh no!

A swarm of honey bees attacked forty small children while they were at a bunny farm in South Africa!

The kids were waiting to get back on the bus, after a school field to a bunny farm near Johannesburg, when the swarm descended on them!

Even more horrifying was

Finding weird animals is always fun and exciting, but when the discoveries that were made in 2012 include fish with penis heads and tulips with digestive systems, then we instantly become a lot more intrigued!!

The most bizarre discoveries of this year are:

In a new study, researchers found that on average only about in four of the hundreds of snail eggs that a male snail carries on his back are actually his.

Some snails carry the kids of as many as 25 other snails!

Sounds like nature is a depraved sex fest!

Wow… you don't see that everyday.

A woman found an injured dragon fly down by a riverbank.

So instead of just leaving it or smashing it like we're sure many people would, she took it home.

Its wing was bent and it was unable to fly, so that meant it couldn't eat.

So what did she do?

She hand-fed it!

Check out the video (above) to watch a dragonfly get nursed back to health.

Even though it's only a myth that North American praying mantises are endangered that still doesn't mean you can mess with them.

This meanie was harassing an innocent praying mantis.

It was just trying to hang out, probably looking for some bugs to eat, when this guy came up and started messing with it.

Well this guy definitely gets more than he bargained for when the mantis goes into attack mode!

Check out the video (above) to watch a mantis defend itself!

Several new species were recently described.

There was a scary skull-faced sneezing monkey, a new mushroom species named after SpongeBob SquarePants and a worm that lives almost a mile underground named for the devil, the Devil Worm.

How did we miss all these creatures until now??

A group of commercial beekeepers has filed a petition to ask the EPA to regulate the use of a pesticide that has proved toxic to honey bees.

These chemicals kill certain insects but are supposed to leave the good ones (in this case bees) unharmed.

But what happened is the poison can lead to a weakened immune system in the bees, which could contribute to colony collapse disorder.

Colony collapse disorder is where all the adult honeybees in a colony suddenly die or disappear.

Other countries have already banned these types of insecticides.

A professor of entomology (bug doctor) said:

"The EPA admits that their testing has not been adequate to determine the impact of this chemical on bees and pollinators."

So maybe it's time for the EPA takes another look at the pesticides they allow to be used.

The bees are vital to over one-third of all of America's crops.

Save the bees!