Common Hoverfly Parasitoid Wasps! Today we're looking at a wasp I found in my backyard. This little insect lays its eggs inside of other hosts (hoverflys), which consumes the hoverfly larva from the ...

In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we demonstrated that male spiders use olfactory ...

The lead investigators used scanning electron microscopy and other techniques to examine the puparia and the single psyllid wing. Each fossil was kept safe in carbonaceous mudstone. This find boosts ...

No matter how careful you are about animals in your home, or how much care you take when you are outdoors, animal and insect bites and stings are sometimes unavoidable. Fleas, mites, and chiggers ...

While many gardeners resort to chemical treatments to fend off unwanted bugs, there’s a more environmentally friendly way to protect your plants: beneficial insects. These natural allies help control ...

Move over bees, MIT researchers have developed a robot insect designed for artificial pollination, laying the groundwork for entirely indoor farms of the future. The robot’s lifelike flapping wings ...

A novel bio-inspired camera capable of ultra-high-speed imaging with high sensitivity was developed by mimicking the visual structure of insect eyes. The compound eyes of insects can detect fast ...

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The detection wavelength range was set between 500 and 4,000 cm⁻ 1, with 128 scans conducted at a resolution of 32 cm −1. The morphology of the composite scaffolds was analyzed using scanning electron ...