We’ve only just begun to understand the scale and complexity of insect migration,” said Dr. Werber. “It’s a natural wonder ...

The Great North American desert is a vast, forbidding region that stretches from Oregon and Idaho southward down the west side of the continent into the northern territories of Mexico. It is a ...

A study conducted at the University of Haifa has found that more than 700 million migratory insects cross northern Israel ...

Desert ants of the Cataglyphis nodus species use the Earth's magnetic field for spatial orientation, but these tiny insects rely on a different component of the field than other insects, a ...

Harvester ants are beneficial to the desert in many ways. They sometimes, although rarely, invade homes, looking for food and water. Ants, I've been told, breathe through their feet.

Howarth studies insects that evolved in the harsh, arid conditions and worries that some of them aren't faring so well in this part of the desert that's suddenly underwater.

The long list of stolen items sounds like an arachnophobe’s nightmare. Rhinocerous roaches. Six-eyed sand spiders. Red spot assassin bugs. Zebra tarantulas. Desert hairy scorpions. These rare ...

Desert termites live in surprisingly large underground colonies (up to 39 million termites have been reported in one acre in the Texas Panhandle during a three-year study) that have a highly ...

Q. Most of the leaves on our desert rose plants have white spots. Could this be a fungus, and what is a control? A. The white spots look like they could be the growth from a fungus – but each… ...

The Joshua tree is one of the Mojave Desert's most iconic inhabitants. But it's under threat—and the key to saving it may lie in better understanding its tiny winged partner.

Some desert insects have truly unique defensive behaviors. Such is the case of the pinacate beetle, Eleodes obscurus, shown here. These common darkling beetles are also known as "clown beetles ...