insects

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There are cooperatively breeding insects, rodents, and even reptiles.

From Slate • May 10, 2026

The data from the project will help inform people how they can change their gardens to make modifications such as "hedgehog highways" and building log piles which will attract insects and mini-beasts to feed hedgehogs.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

"It's specific to insects and can't harm humans."

From Science Daily • May 9, 2026

With a hole for a toilet, and dirty mattresses "full of insects", conditions were "appalling", she said.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

Archaeologists have discovered on even the tiniest islands evidence of the existence of birds, insects and snails that lived there for countless generations, only to vanish when the first human farmers arrived.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari