A large, seasonal fly with a particularly painful bite is out and about again for the summer in Massachusetts.

The Asian longhorned beetle has established itself in other states, as close as Ohio, where it’s destroying maples and other trees that shed their leaves each fall.

With temperatures soaring over the past few weeks, many of us have been spending more time outdoors, making the most of the warm weather. But while barbecues and picnics are summer highlights, all ...

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view ...

1. Horses can’t breathe through their mouth, only through their nose. 2. The reason doctors wear blue or green scrubs is ...

Insects and lab-made animal protein have the potential to be far less damaging to the environment. And because pets tend to ...

Parts of the North Cascades and Mount Baker are facing an outbreak of the western spruce budworm, aerial surveys reveal. The ...

Tourists in a popular destination in northern India were treated to an exceptional sight: a Siamese fireback, Thailand's ...

Bio-inspired swarm robotics is an emerging field at the intersection of biology, robotics, and artificial intelligence, offering novel capabilities by integrating living organisms with robotic systems ...

Tami Gingrich explores why moths have distinct circular, concentric rings made up of contrasting colors on their wings, ...

Spotting a cockroach scuttling across your kitchen floor is pretty disgusting, and most of us would instinctively try to stamp on it before it hides somewhere we cannot reach it. It is even more ...

Insect-specific 'immune priming' affects the evolution of pathogenic bacteria by Christina Hoppenbrock, University of Münster edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...