To distill the secret behind this metabolic mastery, study co-author and zoologist Dorothée Huchon led a hunt for genetic ...

Social species capture insects, chop them up and carry parts back to the nest ... Our future depends on nature, but we are not doing enough to protect our life support system. British wildlife is ...

A Monograph of the Fossil Insects of the British Coal Measures. By Dr. Herbert Bolton. Part 1. Pp. 80 + 4 plates. Part 2. Pp. viii + 81-156 + plates 5–10. (London: Palæontographical Society ...

A new study shows that rapid loss of forests has prompted a colour change in stoneflies, caused by a genetic mutation. This ...

There is another reason to celebrate wasps, though: their nests, which are always magnificent feats of papery invertebrate architecture. Although the quarters of some species are hidden in the ground ...

Conservationists credit a species of parasitoid wasp for keeping Wilkins’ Bunting birds alive Brian Anthony Hernandez, who has nearly 20 years of journalism experience, joined PEOPLE as a writer ...

Oct. 22, 2024 — Twenty-two new species of gall wasps have been identified and named, thanks to new research. The study nearly doubles the number of known species in ... Simulated Mission to Mars ...

The American singer Beyonce is the inspiration behind the naming of the horse fly Scaptia (Plinthina) beyonceae. Because of ...

British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby was briefly upstaged by a wasp Thursday that got caught ... prompting him to swat at his neck and identify it as a "bug." But moments later he was ...

Insect brains have many similarities to human brains, including a brainstem-like structure, two hemispheres, and a spinal cord equivalent ...

The discovery comes from a fossil of an ancient firefly species that was initially discovered in 2016, trapped in 99 ...