Bugging devices: the astounding ways insects are talking and listening all around us
From spiders tuning their silken listening tools, to the beetle’s heady perfume, hundreds of conversations are happening in languages we don’t understandIt’s invertebrate of the year – vote for your favouriteAll around us, every day, hundreds of conversations are taking place in languages we don’t understand, or even, in most cases, notice. Birdsong is one you would probably recognise, and you may have heard of honeybee “waggle” dances. But what about th
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