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 ...

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

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

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, ...

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 ...

Entomologist Torsten Dikow, a leading expert on assassin flies, is working to connect a global community of researchers through the democratization of insect science Emma Saaty Torsten Dikow overlooks ...

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

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 ...