Most of us have the same instant reaction when we spot a creepy crawler making its way across our living room floor. We reach ...

While often overlooked, insects pose significant threats to human health, transmitting deadly diseases like malaria and Chagas disease, and delivering ...

Using weather radar data, researchers estimated that roughly 100 trillion insects are flying above the United States on a ...

Although millions upon millions of living creatures fly, feed and reproduce in the air, this habitat has hardly been ...

Ever notice how some gardens seem to thrive with fewer pests and more blooms? The secret often lies in attracting the right ...

Insects all over the Earth come in all shapes and sizes, from pesky mosquitoes to beautiful butterflies. The teeny tiny ...

Insects are unlike mammals and birds because they must generate their own heat (called ectotherms). Insects die when they are ...

Around 100 trillion insects fly in the skies above the USA on a summer's day, according to estimates by researchers from the ...

Swiss and American researchers have used weather radar data to estimate the number of insects flying in the skies over the United States.

Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive ...

Microplastics were found in Antarctica’s only native insect, highlighting how plastic pollution has spread into remote land ...

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they ...