Scientists learn about the monarch butterflies' migration by capturing and placing the identifying tags in the insects.
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After years of pleasing a fascinated audience across Europe with books of detailed descriptions and life-size paintings of familiar insects.
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At a time when natural history was a valuable tool for discovery, Merian discovered facts about plants and Insects that were not previously known.
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Before writing Metamorphosis, Merian spent decades documenting European plants and insects that she published in a series of books.
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Eat Grub is Britain's first new food company that breaks western food boundaries by introducing edible insects as a new source of food.
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Her observations helped dismiss the popular belief that insects spontaneously emerged from mud.
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However, despite 2 billion people worldwide already supplementing their diet with insects, consumer disgust remains a large barrier in many western countries.
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In 1699 she sailed with her daughter nearly 5,000 miles from the Netherlands to South America to study insects in the jungles of what is now known as Suriname.
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Merian started raising insects at home, mostly butterflies and caterpillars.
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She began in her 20s, making textless, decorative paintings of flowers with insects.
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She was the first to bring together insects and their habitats, including food they ate, into a single ecological composition.
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The results of her decades worth of careful observations were detailed paintings and descriptions of European insects, followed by unconventional visuals and stories of insects and animals from a land that most at the time could only imagine.
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While many birds travelled along well-known routes to warmer climates, others stopped short and spent the winter on landfills, feeding on food waste, and the multitudes of insects that thrive on the dumps.
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White storks feed on locusts and other insects that can become pests if their numbers get out of hand.
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Back in 1983, two scientists, Jack Schultz and Ian Baldwin, reported that young maple trees getting bitten by insects send out a particular smell that neighboring plants can get.
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Scientists find from their studies that plants can protect themselves against insects.
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Some plants pump out smelly chemicals to keep insects away.
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The insects gather under the table.
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They pump out perfumes designed to attract different insects who are natural enemies to the attackers.
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Already, since 2010, drought and insects have killed over 100 million trees in California, most of them in 2016 alone, and wildfires have burned hundreds of thousands of acres.
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Ants keep predatory insects away from where their aphids feed; Gmail keeps the spammers out of our inboxes.
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Healthy trees are also better able to fend off insects.
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Subsequent experiments reproduced this effect with other stimuli, such the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard and photographs of disgusting insects.
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