Hercules beetles are among the largest flying insects in the world, with males of some subspecies measuring up to 6.8 inches (17.2 centimeters) long. They are also extraordinarily strong and can ...

AT vol. xiii, p. 168, H. Müller calls the attention of entomologists to a subject which has interested other entomologists before—the function of the ocelli in insects. With due deference to a ...

But most insects around a light are not in this category, and cool lights attract them quite well. Another thought was that insects were just directly attracted to light, a response called phototaxis.

On rare occasions, a rabbit with what looks like horns is spotted in the Midwest. The horns are actually growths, and they don't have any immediate effect on rabbits. Some people believe these ...

Sarracenia pitcher plants, found in eastern North America, look like trumpet-shaped flowers. But the “flowers” are modified leaves that form a cup containing digestive enzymes and entrap insects.

With summer around the corner, so too are the bugs. Insects, much like their human counterparts, are more lively in the spring and summer when the weather is warmer. And climate change means that ...

Insects that colonize a rhino’s body can help investigators determine when the animal was killed. Such evidence has been used to help wildlife specialists (like those pictured here) catch and ...

Previous research found that insects can ingest and absorb pure, unrefined microplastics—but only under unrealistic, food-scarce situations. In a Biology Letters paper, UBC zoologist Dr ...

A poll of 500 primary school children has found that bugs and insects are a mystery to many kids, with many unable to identify common critters such as ladybirds or slugs ...

Climate change could be impacting emergence of cicadas 03:12. This year's cicada emergence was a double whammy of insects, with two groups of periodical cicadas that only come out of the ground ...

Such approaches are not entirely new. In the 1950s, when researchers mated female insects with radiologically sterilized males, they did not produce offsprings, reducing the next generation’s ...