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Amorous insects predict the weather

Brian Owens · October 2, 2013 ·

Changes in atmospheric pressure reduce mating in beetles, moths and aphids.

People have long claimed that animals can predict the weather, for examply by curtailing their activity when rain threatens. Such theories have had little evidence to support them, but now, a team of scientists has found a concrete example: insects shy away from sex in response to the drop in atmospheric pressure that presages rain. Read more in Nature.

Nature biology, evolution, sex

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