On a hot summer day, strolling down a city street with concrete in every direction can feel like walking into an oven. It ...

Understanding the evolution of insect mating behavior is essential for explaining how early insects adapted to life on land. A new study examines Petrobiellus akkesiensis, a rare jumping bristletail, ...

Researchers have discovered that insects' sense of smell evolved from ancient taste genes, rewriting evolutionary history.

Deep under the Jurassic rock beds of New South Wales, scientists discovered fossilized insects that push back the history of one of the world’s most hardy families of flies. These fragile traces, ...

Different insects flap their wings in different manners. Understanding the variations between these modes of flight may help scientists design better and more efficient flying robots in the future.

Some insects can flap their wings so rapidly that it’s impossible for instructions from their brains to entirely control the behaviour. Building tiny flapping robots has helped researchers shed light ...

Time travel with insects -- The buggy planet -- Rise of the arthropods -- The Cambrian period, 541-485 million years ago, and the Ordovician period, 485-444 million years ago -- Silurian landfall -- ...

A comprehensive 90-year study in Switzerland reveals alarming declines in butterfly populations while forest beetles have ...

In recent years, human population growth, coupled with the climate crisis, environmental pressures, and current production ...

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Western dislike of eating insects may be linked to ancient geography, genetics, and long-term diet patterns, not just culture ...