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Cicadas in southern India have been found to start their dawn chorus with remarkable accuracy, timing their song to a precise level of light during the pre-dawn hours. Researchers discovered that the insects begin singing when the sun is exactly 3.8 degrees below the horizon – a moment known as civil twilight. Recording cicada songs The study, published in the …

It’s the horror destroyer of fruit flies – a fungus that emits spores that land on the flies and infiltrate their bodies, says Sheena Harvey. Burrowing into the fly’s gut, the cells of Entomophthora muscae multiply rapidly and feed on the fly’s internal organs. Then they make their way to the brain.  This is where the fungus takes control. The common fruit …