Sunday, July 5, 2009

Can you ask the computer if bugs sleep?

Colleen has a question for the internet. She wonders aloud, do bugs sleep? So we looked it up and found this informative snippet of information.

Insects clearly rest at times, and are aroused only by strong stimuli – the heat of day, the darkness of night, or perhaps a sudden attack by a predator. This state of deep rest is called torpor, and is the closest behavior to true sleep that bugs exhibit.

Colleen thinks the large beetle thing on our curtain is experiencing a state of torpor.

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