Many insects live in fresh water, or close to the sea in salt marsh and beach habitats. There are also several species of water striders in the genus Halobates, which live on the ocean’s surface, far ...

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Researchers exploring Uganda’s Kibale National Park have discovered seven new species of frog-like leafhoppers. The tiny ...

Flying insects are known to make a beeline for lights in the dark, as the saying goes, "like moths to a flame." Now, scientists have figured out why insects are so keen on light, but it's not because ...

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 ...

Chaos theorists refer to the “butterfly effect” to describe seemingly insignificant events — like the ripple of a butterfly’s wing — that can have unintended consequences. But there might be a more ...

My pre-K students always jump at the opportunity to explore nature, and they also love digging into bugs. I previously assumed that lessons about insects were only possible in the springtime, but that ...

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 ...

“What a spectacle, in the spring, beneath a dead mole!” wrote Jean Henri Fabre. “The horror of this laboratory is a beautiful sight for one who is able to observe and meditate. Let us overcome our ...

Study finds 88% of North American insects haven’t been assessed for extinction risk In A Nutshell The conservation status of ...

In today’s world, questions about the existence of more complex life forms on Mars have become more prominent because there ...

Some little bug is going to find you some day. . . . —Roy Atwell The 1,000 professional exterminators who work in New York City last week generally felt that they were barely holding their own against ...