Some bumblebees can spontaneously solve problems, a discovery that further underscores the colorful creatures’ sophisticated ...

Humans were letting bed bugs bite long before beds even existed. A comprehensive new genetic analysis reveals how these blood ...

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Washington — Like a moth to flame, many scientists and poets have long assumed that flying insects were simply, inexorably drawn to bright lights. But that's not exactly what's going on, a new study ...

This article was originally published by Undark. Bees have long impressed the behavioral scientist Lars Chittka. In his lab at Queen Mary University of London, the pollinators have proved themselves ...

Astronomers have spotted clouds of vaporized sand on an exoplanet. And, weather radar data reveal insects in U.S. skies—100 trillion of them.

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

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Insects 100 million years ago. There was a range of insects living alongside the dinosaurs in Australia. At a place called Koonwarra in Australia many 115 + million year old insects have been ...

The tell-tale signs that autumn is here are clear to us — the days are getting shorter and temperatures are decreasing. We take this as a sign to pull out our winter woollies and think about turning ...

In the early 1990s, when I was a Ph.D. student at the Free University of Berlin modeling the evolution of bee color perception, I asked a botany professor for some advice about flower pigments. I ...