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

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 ...

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

Scientists discovered two Mediterranean beetle species that can see red color, unlike almost all other insects.

By shining light into either eye, the researchers could steer the cockroach left or right. The team's paper, which appeared in the journal Advanced Intelligent Systems earlier this month, noted ...

An Israeli doctor serving as an army reservist has compared killing people in Gaza to “eliminating cockroaches” in a post on social media. Writing on X on Sunday, Sabo Amos, who works as a ...

Green recommends a multi-pronged approach to insect control—using fly tags, feed through insect growth regulator products, pour-ons, back rubbers/dust bags—to help slow the population.

It works a lot like an insect ’s compound eye. Instead of using one lens to capture one frame at a time, HS-MAC uses many tiny lenses to grab different parts of a scene at different times.

American cockroaches can also carry disease-causing bacteria, such as Salmonella and listeria, from the sewer to your home, Hayes said. “That’s definitely not something you want in your ...