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The features that make these insects perfect predators
The pine marten may have a taste for jam sandwiches, but its razor-sharp claws and appetite for eggs and grey squirrels makes it a predatory force to be reckoned with, says Patrick Galbraith
YOU’LL KNOW ALL ABOUT IT IF you get stung by a bullet ant (Paraponera clavata), a species named after the fact that the pain from its venom feels as if it has been inflicted by a gunshot. Some insect
Structured, social and remarkably sophisticated, a bustling woodland ant community is home to engineers, farmers, nurses and warriors
The ethics of industrial insect farming
If you thought raising kids was tricky, spare a thought for the mother eaten by her own spiderlings…
In an insect-rich summer common blue THE ‘insectageddon’ ...
