Many insects have lived in close symbiosis with bacteria for millions of years, during which time the bacteria have provided ...

About 70 per cent of the species on Earth are insects. They are fundamental components of most ecosystems: they comprise half ...

Insects make up to 90% of all animal species on the planet, and most of them can be found in the tropics, the regions around ...

A katydid changes color from pink to green to match leaf development, showing advanced camouflage adaptation in rainforests.

In the pitch black hours nearing midnight last March on Barro Colorado Island in Panama, a team of scientists came across a ...

The parasitic fly lays eggs in the open wounds and orifices of live animals—including, disturbingly, humans.

Local conservationists are counting on an army of bugs to combat another army of bugs. According to a news release from the ...

The problem with diffusion is that it’s notoriously slow. The oxygen constraint hypothesis argued that the larger the insect ...

Scientists rethink why giant insects once ruled the skies, finding oxygen may not explain their size or disappearance.

Several K-State Research and Extension publications related to insect management in Kansas were recently updated and are ...

That creepy-crawly feeling you get thinking about eating bugs? It might be time to get over it. While Western cultures still wrinkle their noses at insect protein, a quiet revolution is transforming ...

A 230-million-year-old fossilized beetle has been discovered in China that could rewrite the history of its evolution.