Answers to Biology Questions

It's well known in the USA that bees are dying. This is having profound effects on certain types of agriculture....

I found a couple of beetles over an inch long and the shell looked like a withered acorn. The wing span was nearly two...

I saw a bunch of ants that were crowding around some food crumbs on the pavement. Do ants sleep? They seem to be...

I work in a bakery and years ago we used to get a lot of cockroaches. We used to stack the bread tins inside one...

My mother left the lid off a jar of honey in a food cupboard. We'd never seen any ants there before, but they...

This morning I listened to the May 14th broadcast. One of the discussions was about the stinging cells (nematocysts) of...

If everything on the planet got wiped out by a bomb, could life start again like it did originally?

Why doesn't nature make any straight lines?

We kept Friesian cows for about fifteen years. Sometimes they got sunburnt but only on the white patches. Why?

As far as I know, mammals do not use the colours blue or green, but most other animals and plants do. Is there a reason...

People say that dogs are colour-blind. Is that a fact?

Is there any life at the bottom of deep ocean trenches?

How does a chameleon change its skin colour so fast and is there any molecular mechanism that's known to underlie...

What do people do to plants to make them genetically modified?

I was wondering if you could tell me whether my male dog is sensitive to my menstrual cycle? I've brought a puppy...

How can active transport in plants possibly work?

We occasionally look after a dog when our friends go on holiday. We noticed that when it wees on the grass, the grass...

How do turtles stretch out their neck? What is their bone structure?

How do Venus fly traps sense their prey without nerve cells and how do they contract without muscles?

Where do flies go at night time?

I'm curious about why some people get bitten more than others. In summer I can have some quite good bites on me....

For the last week there have been flies at work and they're more annoying than ever. By this I mean that they...

When you put wood on a fire, why does some wood spit and crackle while other wood burns slowly and quietly?

I've heard that there's a single origin for the emergence of Homo sapiens. Is there any scientific background...