This katydid species has a brilliant, counterintuitive approach to hiding in plain sight: it blends in by standing out in ...

After attempting to smuggle 2,200 giant African harvestor ants into China, one man is facing a fine and jail time.

The cemetery's location near a major orchard may explain why so many bees chose to nest there for over a century.

A prehistoric species of bug with claws has been discovered in Myanmar based on an intact fossil trapped in amber. The insect ...

Typically, engineers perform surgery to implant electrodes into the insects’ antennae. The antennae contain sensors for smell ...

Scientists long believed it would take more than a century for animals to return to deforested land. New research shows ...

Scientists at UC Riverside have found a clever new way to outsmart termites—by turning their own instincts against them.

The surprising escapes from near-death situations of beetles and other small animals illustrate how both prey and predators ...

More trees are dying in Northeastern forests, and not just from old age. A new study authored by researchers at the University of Vermont finds disease and invasive insects spurred on by climate ...

Culiseta annulata, otherwise known as banded mosquitoes, was believed to be behind the bites in Ballykelly in the last few years Research to determine Northern Ireland's mosquito population has been ...

Leafcutter ant carrying a leaf to its nest.© Ken Griffiths/Shutterstock.com Researchers report that a large portion of Amazon insect species already live close to their upper heat limits. As global ...