Three-hundred-million years ago, Earth was very different. The continents had coalesced into Pangea, which was dominated in ...

Phantom crane flies change the angle of their splayed legs to increase or reduce drag, helping them navigate varying winds.

Although the concept seems like something from science fiction, science is rapidly adopting it. Researchers have started ...

Snow flies beat the cold by acting like a mashup of Arctic fish and polar bears.

A recent study provides evidence that some results of behavioral experiments with insects cannot be fully reproduced. So far, possible reproducibility problems have been little discussed in this ...

Many insects live in fresh water, or close to the sea in salt marsh and beach habitats. There are also several species of ...

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 ...

My pre-K students always jump at the opportunity to explore nature, and they also love digging into bugs. I previously ...

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