Insects

Giant Insect Ambassadors for the Rainforest

For our newest video for Time.com, I visited an old friend, Norm Gershenz of SaveNature.org, to discuss some of their programs for raising awareness and saving precious habitats that are home to strange and beautiful creatures like the giant thorny phasmid. Find out more about the Insect Discovery Lab and how you can bring it …

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New species of insect identified in eBay purchase

Dr. Richard Harrington, vice-president of the UK’s Royal Entomological Society, bought a fossilized insect on eBay and it turned out to be a previously unknown species of aphid. He bought the insect, which was encased in a 40-50 million-year-old piece of amber, for £20 (about $37). “It’s a rather unusual route to come by (a …

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