The insects flying in circles around your porch light aren’t captivated by the light. Instead, they may have lost track of which way is up, high-speed infrared camera data suggest. Moths and other ...

Many insects feel right at home in the hot, humid environments of the tropics; more than 70 percent of the world’s insect ...

Pro-environmental behavior increases among school students who participate in insect-related citizen science projects, according to new research. Pro-environmental behaviour increases among school ...

Even at levels safe for humans, air pollution can disrupt the way some insects communicate with plants, and with each other.

Did you know that there are ten quintillion—or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000—individual insects on the planet? That means that for each and every one of us humans, there are 1.25 billion insects hopping, ...

Simply put, insects are vital for the survival of land-based life on this planet. Ellen Welti, a research ecologist with the Smithsonian’s Great Plains Science Program, says there are two groups of ...

Germany is exploring controversial defence research creating bioelectronic insects for surveillance. A startup, SWARM ...

Did you know that there are ten quintillion—or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000—individual insects on the planet? That means that for each and every one of us humans, there are 1.25 billion insects hopping, ...

SAN ANTONIO — Are you noticing a lot of bugs that look like giant mosquitos flying around outside your home? These insects look like colossal mosquitos combined with daddy longlegs, but they're not ...

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Antique insect collections became exceedingly popular in the 1800s and early 1900s. They were often built as working reference libraries, containing pinned and labeled insects so that naturalists ...