Field margins where hedges have been planted attract twice as many insects as those without hedges. This holds true even in ...

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

The problem with diffusion is that it’s notoriously slow. The oxygen constraint hypothesis argued that the larger the insect ...

Scientists rethink why giant insects once ruled the skies, finding oxygen may not explain their size or disappearance.

An international team of scientists spotted the color-changing insect on Barro Colorado Island in Panama. In the pitch black ...

A rare rainforest insect, Arota festae, starts life bright pink before slowly turning green, revealing a surprising ...

In 2025, researchers on Barro Colorado Island in Panama found something that looked almost like a prank played by the ...

It sounds like a just-so story—“How the Insect Got its Wings”—but it’s really a mystery that has puzzled biologists for over a century. Intriguing and competing theories of insect wing evolution have ...

That creepy-crawly feeling you get thinking about eating bugs? It might be time to get over it. While Western cultures still wrinkle their noses at insect protein, a quiet revolution is transforming ...

Mosquito and tick season is approaching, and experts say a single bite from an infected insect could leave people seriously ...