Insect expert Eleanor Drinkwater takes on this listener's question
Answers to Biology Questions
Biology, genetics, ecology and evolution, insects, mammals, marine science, plants and zoology...
What determines the dialects of close by communities?
God forbid anything were to happen to the current lineup...
How our physiology reacts to chilly weather...
Would survival of the fittest cause chaos down the line..
Why wing mirrors are so attractive to arachnids...
Why does one side of the brain control the other side of the body?
The wind it would take to blow birds away...
Do the diverse array of whale species all come from one organism?
We need to do something to combat superbugs...
The scale of the task means we need to direct our energy in the places that need it most...
The potential consequences of spicy eating challenges...
Marine mammals must come up for air....
The astonishing finding from the site of the Chernobyl disaster...
The similarities between heartbreak and withdrawal...
The grudge these animals may have developed for holidaymakers...
And how they work...
What could make that happen...
And why it doesn't have the same impact on your breath...
How do they help us get by....
Does the process of evolution have a set speed? And what affects this?
Are animals born specific behaviours, and are they passed on by genetics?