We need a revolution in artificial intelligence and learning from insects will help us achieve it, says James Marshall

As insects decline globally, there’s a need for regulating their sale online.

Equations show that jumping at 60 degrees relative to the horizontal helps insects avoid hitting obstacles – a finding that might help in the design of space exploration rovers

An influx of ticks, mosquitos and leeches are swarming Sydney after the city's wet weather.

An influx of ticks, mosquitos and leeches are swarming Sydney after the city's wet weather.

Insects avoid being eaten by playing dead, because birds are easily distracted by other nearby insects that are still moving

The vaccine protects the tiny buzzing insects against American Foulbrood, which can kill a colony — and costs beekeepers US$400 million a year in revenue losses

With February and the end of winter approaching, most insects are still wrapped up in their cocoons to protect them from the cold temperatures outside. Although these insects and pests may not be active, it’s a great time for households to check out cabinets and storage areas, go through the chemical inventory at home, and dispose of pesticide products that are no longer needed.

Insects have been around for millions of years, but their evolutionary relationships are still not fully known. Now, researchers from Japan have discovered that an old insect lineage can contribute to a clearer picture of their past.

The noisy flying insects invaded the aircraft's engines.

The bridge spider (Larinioides sclopetarius) uses its web to detect the sounds made by insects flying nearby and prepare itself for a potential meal

A vaccine that changes the way our body responds to mosquito bites could protect us from diseases the insects carry, and also seems to make mosquitoes lay fewer eggs

With February and the end of winter approaching, most insects are still wrapped up in their cocoons to protect them from the cold temperatures outside. Although these insects and pests may not be active, it’s a great time for households to check out cabinets and storage areas, go through the chemical inventory at home, and dispose of pesticide products that are no longer needed.

Snakes typically ate insects before the mass extinction event that wiped out the non-bird dinosaurs, but then they broadened diets to include birds and mammals

Dr. Anthony Fauci's division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) partially funded an experiment with insects eating puppies alive.

As a boy in the 1960s, David Wagner would run around his family’s Missouri farm with a glass jar clutched in his hand, scooping flickering fireflies out of the sky. “We could fill it up and put it by our bedside at night,” says Wagner, now an entomologist. That’s all gone, the family farm now […]

The long-toothed dart moth, the 11,000th image in National Geographic’s Photo Ark, is a reminder of the crucial role that insects play.

Some spider species that live in groups of thousands on enormous webs synchronise their movements to catch insects up to 700 times heavier than an individual spider

A plant that grows in bogs along the west coast of North America has been spotted using its flowers to eat insects – until now, researchers had no idea it was carnivorous

By pairing insects with a bacterium, this young company is able to upcycle the waste from palm oil production and turn it into valuable animal feeds and fertilizer

An influx of ticks, mosquitos and leeches are swarming Sydney after the city's wet weather.

An influx of ticks, mosquitos and leeches are swarming Sydney after the city's wet weather.

Foxes are omnivorous and their diet varies depending on the season, but they primarily consume small mammals, birds, insects, and fruits.

Grass bedding in South Africa’s Border cave dates back 227,000 years, and was put on top of ash to help keep biting insects away

Chimps at Loango National Park in Gabon apply small winged insects to their wounds in an apparent form of self-medication, but it is unclear why

Tomato fruits send electrical warnings to the rest of the plant when attacked by insects, finds new study in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems

The first mammals probably mostly ate insects, but bite marks on a bone fragment suggest they occasionally scavenged meat from giant dinosaur carcasses

There are only seven species of cicadas that come out all at once every 13 or 17 years—a life cycle that’s unique among insects.

Also the controversial claim of a frozen water bear achieving quantum entangled state

A species of fly works together with a yeast to combat a raspberry-bound fungus that threatens the insects' larvae

The world's insects are in trouble – if we start using pesticides to protect plants rather than killing insects it could make a big difference, says Théotime Colin and Andrew B. Barron

An influx of ticks, mosquitos and leeches are swarming Sydney after the city's wet weather.

Insects have been around for millions of years, but their evolutionary relationships are still not fully known. Now, researchers from Japan have discovered that an old insect lineage can contribute to a clearer picture of their past.

Spiders may build their webs to catch prey, but trials in Slovenian forests show they also grab onto DNA, which can help us monitor biodiversity in a less invasive manner

Mammals aren't alone—some reptiles, amphibians, and insects give birth to live young.

Bees and other insects leave behind tiny "footprints" of environmental DNA on plants each time they visit, giving researchers a way of tracking where insects have been, and offering clues on how to help them flourish.

Hurricane Laura's rains led to a prime mosquito habitat in portions of Louisiana. Swarms of the insects plagued livestock until they died.

In Pakistan, the ground literally crawls with insects, as farmers sell them for chicken feed.

Trigger warnings have been given to university students reading Dracula to prepare them for its 'descriptions of spiders and other insects'.

Restaurant chain looks for environmentally friendly alternatives to soy

Most electric vertical take-off and landing (EVTOL) aircraft owe their design to futuristic flying robots and insects. But there's a more humble kind of flying innovation -- the flying ...

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David Harville, a former eBay executive, pleaded guilty to harassing and stalking a Massachusetts couple who published a newsletter critical of eBay.

The aim is to reduce insect-borne diseases but environmental groups warn of unforeseen consequences.

An influx of ticks, mosquitos and leeches are swarming Sydney after the city's wet weather.

An influx of ticks, mosquitos and leeches are swarming Sydney after the city's wet weather.

Two pairs of academics are making the case for using insects as a food source in Perspectives pieces published in the journal Science.

In the U.S., a culturally rooted animosity and ignorance toward bugs can be harmful to both them and us.

The moth, Lymantria dispar, and the ant, Aphaenogaster araneoides, known as the "gypsy moth" and the "gypsy ant," were removed as recognized common names.

An influx of ticks, mosquitos and leeches are swarming Sydney after the city's wet weather.