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• Daddy Long-legs spider - Pholcus phalangiodes

  
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  Date Photographed: 29/04/2013 Location: Tower Road, Melksham Resources: http://srs.britishspiders.org.uk/portal.php/p/Summary/s/Pholcus+phalangioides
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• WNJ Exclusive: The Garden State from a Bugs Eye View

  
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  Bee on a flower in Maplewood at the Durand Hedden House and Garden All photos by Jared Kofsky Jared Kofsky is a high school student in Essex County whose photos havewon many awards, including from the Star Ledger, NJDEP and the USDA. Hisphotos have also been used on many websites, such as Salon.com, Yahoo News, ...
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• Common moth can hear higher frequencies than any other animal on Earth

  
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  A common little moth turns out to have the best ears in the animal kingdom. According to a new study in Biology Letters , the greater wax moth ( Galleria mellonella ) is capable of hearing frequencies up to 300,000 hertz (300kHz), which is 15 times the frequency humans can hear at their prime, around 20 kHz.
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• U.S. loses nearly a third of its honey bees this season

  
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  Nearly a third of managed honeybee colonies in America died out or disappeared over the winter, an annual survey found on Wednesday. The decline—which was far worse than the winter before—threatens the survival of some bee colonies. The heavy losses of pollinators also threatens the countrys food supply, ...
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• A Phantasmagorical Underwater Glass Menagerie

  
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  Laurie says: I saw these remarkable 19th century glass sculptures in a New York Times article In Pursuit of an Underwater Menagerie by C. Drew Harvell. I was particularity struck by them both as a photographer and as an artist who makes very detailed carvings in jewelry and sculpture. They exhibit the ...
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• Invertebrate Spotlight: Larvaceans

  
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  Mucus house of a Larvacean Invertebrate Spotlight: Larvaceans By Michelle Marraffini Invertebrate Zoology Lab Today in the Marine Invertebrate Zoology we learned about one of the most interesting marine animals.  Larvaceans (Class Larvacean) are unique animals in the phylum Chordata along with their close ...
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• NJ DEP: CHRISTIE ADMINISTRATION ENCOURAGES RESIDENTS TO REMOVE STANDING WATER ON PROPERTY TO REDUCE MOSQUITO POPULATION

  
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• Banded Butterflyfish, Chaetodon Striatus, Reef Fish

  
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    Hello Earth people, I have a cute little Banded Butterflyfish hiding in a sea-fan for you all today that we came across the other day while cleaning the reef. These fish are so beautiful and really one of the more graceful fish you will see on the reef, they just cruise about the reef (usually in pairs) without a ...
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• NJ.com: Thousands of bees escape from truck in Bernards, Route 287 ramp partially blocked

  
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• WNJ Photo of the Week: Stinkbug

  
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• Pacific Sea Nettle

  
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  Beautiful jellyfish swim hypnotically in a tank at the Oregon Coast Aquarium . They are a species that swims in ever-increasing numbers in the waters off the North West Pacific Coast of America and are called Pacific Sea Nettles ( Chrysaora fuscescens ). Pacific Sea Nettles (1) – Jellyfish (Chrysaora ...
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• NBC News: Cicadas on the rise: Bug fans and scientists get ready for the big buzz

  
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• Oregon Sea Anemones at the OSU Hatfield Marine Science Visitor Center

  
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  Whilst in Oregon a few years back I explored the seashores along the North West Pacific Coast, and found fascinating and varied forms of seashore creatures. I also visited the Oregon State University Hatfield Marine Science Center which is an excellent place to find out all about the region’s marine wildlife. It ...
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• The Huffington Post: Donald Trump Caterpillar: Flannel Moth Larva Looks Like Real Estate Moguls Hair

  
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• Mussel Shells

  
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  This year down at the park I’ve noticed a bunch of mussel ( Mytilus trossulus ) shells washed up with the seaweed. I do not remember seeing so many in previous years. Apart from the ever present possibilities that I just didn’t pay enough attention or have forgotten what I did notice, I’m wondering if ...
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• Spotty amphipod

  
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  In any clump of seaweed from our beaches, whether it comes from the intertidal zone or from the piles of rotting debris above the tide line, a handful will almost always contain amphipods. Some, brought home with sea lettuce and eelgrass for the hermit crabs, will swim madly about when placed again in water. Some, ...
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• Aphid - Cinara sp.

  
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  Date Photographed: 29/04/2013 Location: Tower Road, Melksham Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinara Notes: These aphids were walking along the edge of two terracotta pots that contain goldcrest conifers. Helped received from WABs jaguarondi with regard to idenfitication. Image below taken on my new ...
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• Victory Tastes Sweet for Bees

  
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  The EU has announced that it is to ban neonicotinoid pesticides in a bid to save the continent’s bee populations. The controversial move will see three types of the pesticide phased out from December, in a ban set to last 2 years. Whilst the member states were divided over the scale of the effect of the pesticides ...
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• Top 5: Critically Endangered

  
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  The number of critically endangered species on the IUCN Red List currently stands at 4091. The real number is likely to be much higher: some species are so rare they haven’t even been discovered yet, and current surveys of many ecosystems are infrequent at best. Though there are numerous conservation initiatives at ...
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• Top 5 Most Invaluable Animals

  
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  Robert Paine was studying a rocky intertidal community in Makkaw Bay in the 1960s, when he noticed that the abundance of the top predator (the starfish Pisaster ochraceus) seemed to be affecting the biodiversity of the whole community. When numbers of starfish declined, diversity followed suit. Paine made the ...
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