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Fire ants: Their true story told by the scientist who loves them

... manipulate the ants they love (and that do indeed sting them). Tschinkel's anecdote on shelter is titled "There's Nothing Like Getting Plastered," and among others, there's also "Another Immigrant Moves West," "You Call That Pain?" "The Heartbreak of Parasitoids" and "Gang Wars." With sizeable grants fro...

A new target for painkillers

...at fish or snails and occasionally deliver a fatal sting to a human fisherman. -- RgIA is from the species Conus regius, which measures 1.6 to 2.8 inches in length and lives from Georgia southward along Central America to Brazil's central coast. -- Vc1.1 is from the species Conus victoriae, which mea...

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