They're a pest and often a plague on farmers and ranchers. But Daniel Fenn regards the greasy thumb-sized Mormon cricket with fascination, collecting
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They're a pest and often a plague on farmers and ranchers. But Daniel Fenn regards the greasy thumb-sized Mormon cricket with fascination, collecting the choicest specimens for study.
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SWARMS of pink locusts yesterday swept through Cairo in scenes recalling the biblical plague of Egypt. The swarms flew high above tall towers or swooped on to treelined streets, where scared pedestrians stamped on them or ran for cover.
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Baseball players may not be the only animals looking to gain an advantage by using steroids.
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An icky parasite that is a major source of tummy trouble for young children and nature lovers appears to have been infecting mammals for a very long time, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
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Swarms of Asian lady bugs, introduced in this country to control pests, have themselves become a nuisance on golf courses and in homes and gardens around Texas.
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LARAMIE, Wyo. - An extensive collection of grasshoppers, gathered over a 60-year career by a university professor, has found a sanctuary.  The 221 species that professor emeritus Robert Pfadt labored to collect are now cataloged and immortalized in their own boxed nests.
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Wild camels in drought-stricken Australia are in plague proportions, damaging the environment and property as they compete with native animals for food and water.
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Bats, lauded for scooping up mosquitoes and other nasty pests but reviled for drinking blood and spreading rabies, now have another unpopular habit to live down -- it appears they eat songbirds, scientists said on Tuesday.
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Cow manure and fish guts and maggots. It could all soon be dinner &#151; if you're an Idaho rainbow trout.
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At left, Sterling Brinkerhoff, 5, helps Jim Karpowitz with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources stock Willow Pond in Murray with trout on Thursday. Right, Bumble, the official mascot of the Salt Lake Bees, supervises as catchable-size fish are dumped into Willow Pond.
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HALIFAX -- The buzzing. The biting. You&#39;d think there were already enough insects in the world to drive you buggy. However, a team of researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax announced yesterday it had
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His scowl could intimidate the best of hitters. His fastball once killed a bird in flight. Randy Johnson leaves the Arizona Diamondbacks with a six-year legacy unmatched by any athlete the state has known.
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By James Proffitt  It's only about a half-inch long and flies less than a mile in its life.  But the emerald ash borer has raised alarms across the region, with forestry officials closely watching for the arrival of the destructive beetle.
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Predators want to kill and eat you. Parasites want to keep you alive as a cozy haven in which to multiply.
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As baseball finds itself struggling to control the steroid issue, its past serves as a cautionary tale.
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Once hunted by the thousands, the band-tailed pigeon is in decline. Mathew Tekulsky writes of the joy of seeing five or six of these big birds on his backyard feeder.
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HALIFAX (CP) - The buzzing. The biting. You&#39;d think there were already enough insects in the world to drive you buggy. However, a team of researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax announced Tuesday that