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POPSPentagon Explore Human Fear Chemicals "If they're trying to spot terrorists at an airport, it may not work: I know a number of people whose fear levels when approaching a flight would overload any fear sensor for miles. The suicide bombers are probably way calmer."
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POPS Good Guys Tip The Scale In Manhattan It sounds like a horror movie, however, in this real life story the red-and-black bugs have been unleashed on the 80-acre grounds of one of New York's biggest apartment complexes with a mission: eat pests infesting the neatly landscaped property. The ladybugs from Bozeman, Montana, arrived at the Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village complex on Manhattan's East Side on Thursday afternoon, packed in boxes shipped by a natural gardening company. Vinje buys them from ladybug collectors working the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains in Oregon, California and Montana. In Bozeman, he keeps them alive in large refrigerators where the temperature is kept to about 35 degrees. They go "dormant" at that temperature, using up their fat stores without eating anything, and staying alive for about five months, Vinje said.
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POPSStinky Ladybugs Ruined My Wine Of all the insects, I always thought ladybugs were beneficial to farmers. One farmers cure for aphids is another farmers problem apparently. Blood from their leg sockets? Yuk.
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POPSLions and Tigers and Bears? Oh, no! It's Aphids and Larvae and Ants!: Hilton Pond Formica ants, aphids, fly larvae, and parasitic wasps--isn't nature fascinating! It turns out that the body of the dead aphid on the fly maggot likely contained the pupa of a braconid wasp, a small parasite that lays its eggs on living aphids. The fly maggot was consuming the luckless aphid. And the ants were fooled by the maggot's camouflaging chemicals into letting it remain in the aphid herd--a wolf in sheep's clothing, so to speak. Go to the source for the whole story. It's a great website.
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