Will prayer help the praying mantis? Are bees buzzy, drumming up enough support?
Hu-hu do these beetles think they'll beat? Or have sandflies bitten off more than they can chew?
The Bug of the Year campaign has begun - and it coincides with Otago's Museum's pollination workshop.
Tess Brunton got amongst some creepy crawlies.
Time moves fast. Sometimes, it’s easy to forget that the stuff you’re being taught at Uni might not be the same stuff that was being taught 20 years ago. Plate tectonics, for example, only became a fully-fledged theory in the ’60s. That means we were on the moon before we
Wasp populations are at their yearly high, and students have reported fear, frustration and an “absolute fuck-ton” of the stinging insects around town. Critic Te Arohi reached out to the Zoology Department to get to the bottom of this.
The short answer is simple: wasp colonies follow