Squash bugs, a common and difficult-to-control agricultural pest, need healthy bacteria in their gut to grow and stay alive. However, they do not acquire any bacteria from their parents when they ...

Squash bugs find the poop of members of their own species and eat it, ingesting the symbiont and giving themselves a chance to thrive. Menu. Science.

Squash bugs, a common and difficult-to-control agricultural pest, need healthy bacteria in their gut to grow and stay alive. However, they do not acquire any bacteria from their parents when they are ...

It was reported a more than a decade ago that some species of tropical pitcher plants, Nepenthes species, changed their diet from insects to animal poops. But thanks to new research, we now know ...