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

Amber from the Kachin region of Myanmar has preserved a wealth of fossils, offering insights into the diversity of the ...

This invasive insect's sting has been reported to cause severe allergic reactions, like anaphylaxis, in people who are ...

Researchers at Harvard have developed a fleet of robotic ants that mimic the self-organizing ...

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

“If we look at kind of the different time periods throughout history, large insects lived in the Permian period. Those were ...

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 the equator. Yet we still know surprisingly little about how these species ...

Three-hundred million years ago, the skies of the late Palaeozoic era were buzzing with giant insects. Meganeuropsis permiana, a predatory insect resembling a modern-day dragonfly, had a wingspan of ...

Blooming flowers provide natural nectar sources, but hummingbirds primarily eat bugs, including an assortment of gnats, ...