These tiny insects have the uncanny ability to track down humans and nimbly dodge our attempts to swat them away. But why do flies hang around us? The reason depends on the species of insect ...

Scroll down for video The extra limbs weigh around 10lbs (9kg) so they can be strapped onto the shoulders or hips, but can still lift heavy objects like a human’s. There were built at MIT's d ...

Humans have an exceptional ability to deal with viruses. In most cases, your immune system is able to fight an infection. On ...

Indeed, the call for using insects to improve human food security has gotten louder in recent years. Since about 2004, the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has been interested in the use of ...

A native New Zealand insect that once mimicked its toxic neighbor has changed color in deforested areas, in a striking example of human-induced evolution. The long-tailed stonefly, Zelandoperla ...

Humans determine if an insect is beneficial, benign or pestiferous. Even when an insect is classified as a pest, it can have, under different circumstances, a beneficial role. A fly in a house is ...

With 40 tonnes of insects to every human, insects could offer a real solution to the global food crisis, where millions go hungry every day while the meat consumption of the rich draws vast ...

But there are a bunch of other unsavory bugs that will lay eggs all over your body — on purpose. First up, the human botfly. These insects, which are native to Central and South America ...

A new study highlights the remarkable ability of wild insect populations to adapt rapidly to environmental changes brought on by human activity, specifically deforestation. Researchers have ...

In humans and many other animal species ... must play some role in determining the sex of insects. However, he was unable to gather any direct evidence to support his hypothesis.