Does spit really help with a mosquito bite? And onion with a bee sting? An expert gives answers on how to respond to common insect attacks. Andrea Warnecke/dpa It could be such a wonderful summer's ...

It’s Halloween every day for the bone collector caterpillar. The moth larva decorates its drag-along dwelling with scavenged body parts from dead insects. This ghastly getup may allow the creatures to ...

Global relationship between body size shifts and biogeographical range shifts between the tropical and temperate zone in extant Odonata. Credit: Journal of Biogeography (2022). DOI: 10.1111/jbi.14544 ...

It sounds like a just-so story—“How the Insect Got its Wings”—but it’s really a mystery that has puzzled biologists for over a century. Intriguing and competing theories of insect wing evolution have ...

I love taking selfies with my insect friends. They’re so tiny and look so different from me. But my friend Rich Zack told me that insects and humans have lots in common. He’s an insect scientist at ...

Discover interesting facts about insects, the critters whose combined weight on the planet is 70 times that of all humans. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Insect wings represent a pivotal evolutionary innovation that has underpinned the remarkable radiation of the Insecta. This field, at the intersection of evolution and developmental biology (evo-devo) ...

A handful of new studies moves the needle toward a consensus on the long-disputed question of whether insect wings evolved from legs or from the body wall, but the devil is in the details. For more ...

Photographer Thorben Danke combines hundreds of shots to create breathtaking images of the tiny creatures Joe Spring - Former Associate Editor, Science An unidentified fly from the order Diptera, ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. — Abigail Martens grew up on a corn and soybean farm her parents still run at Missouri Valley, Iowa, about 20 miles north of Omaha, Neb. As a kid, she’d bring home snakes, bullfrogs, ...

Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...