Solar power has numerous benefits over other energy sources, and its surprising appeal with certain insects provides a boost ...

Recent estimates have come to the consensus that our planet hosts roughly six million species. But new research reveals that those counts may be drastically underestimated ...

“The gas inside an air sac is not pressurized (it is roughly the same as the atmospheric pressure at the water’s surface),” ...

Discover the pink winged stick insect, Madagascar’s master of camouflage, its behavior, and endangered status.

The red velvet ant earned its nickname by supposedly killing cows with a single sting, yet its venom contains none of the ...

More than 60% of Australia's known insects are unnamed and a mystery to science. Of an estimated 500,000 Australian species, roughly half are insects, but many aren't categorized. A group of ...

Aphids come in a variety of colors, with or without wings, and some, like the cabbage and wooly aphids, are covered with a ...

Lake fly larvae plunge more than 200 meters into Lake Malawi each day to hide from predators, using tiny air sacs to control their depth. A rubber-like material called resilin lets them expand or ...

Researchers are investigating the causes and consequences of the worldwide insect decline as well as considering potential countermeasures. A researcher from Mainz University has published work in a ...

Scientists are always looking for better ways to foil bugs that leave itchy welts in their wake. Despite the many tools being studied, from tick-killing fungus to genetically modified mosquitoes, bug ...

Deep-diving insect larvae are challenging a long-held idea about why there are almost no insects in the ocean, thanks to sturdy air sacs. In Lake Malawi in East Africa, billions of lake fly larvae ...