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Bears that get caught in traps may just be more curious to begin with.
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Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
Specific pairs of males and females kept showing up in traps together.
—Steven Phelps, Scientific American, 18 Jan. 2023
In it, Sharkey and a group of coauthors named some new species of braconid wasp that had been caught in malaise traps in Costa Rica.
—Brooke Jarvis, WIRED, 10 Nov. 2022
In Lee County, where Fort Myers is located, mosquito counts in the traps began to spike about a week after Ian.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2022
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Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
Specific pairs of males and females kept showing up in traps together.
—Steven Phelps, Scientific American, 18 Jan. 2023
In it, Sharkey and a group of coauthors named some new species of braconid wasp that had been caught in malaise traps in Costa Rica.
—Brooke Jarvis, WIRED, 10 Nov. 2022
In Lee County, where Fort Myers is located, mosquito counts in the traps began to spike about a week after Ian.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2022
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“Traps.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/traps. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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