Discover the imperial moth, one of North America’s largest and most striking silk moths. Learn about its range, life cycle, ...

Around 200 million years ago, long before flowers existed and back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, some of the first plants ...

Cycad cones aren’t always hot. Instead, they follow daily cycles of heating and cooling: Pollen-laden male cones produce a big burst of heat in the late afternoon, and then ovulating female cones warm ...

While many modern plants use colorful flowers to attract pollinators, ancient palm-like plants called cycads lure them by ...

A grasshopper is mainly made up of three parts: the head, the thorax and the abdomen. The legs and antennae extend from these ...

Long before flowers dazzled pollinators with brilliant colors and sweet scents, ancient plants used another feature to signal insects: heat. The findings, based on an analysis of the biology and ...

Here’s what to do about these occasional invaders. You’re pulling out the holiday décor, or you just opened a cabinet or moved a book, and out scuttles a tiny, flat insect covered with silvery scales.

Megaloblatta longipennis is the rainforest giant cockroach that amazes scientists with its size, wingspan and survival skills ...

The peppermint stick insect packs a peppermint-scented blast powerful enough to fend off hungry predators in Australia’s ...

Megaloblatta belongs to a genus of exceptionally large cockroaches found across Central and South America. Known for their ...