New Horizons island is teeming with wildlife! Like any good explorer, you will want to catch and catalogue every fish, sea ...

New insect-scale microrobots can fly more than 100 times longer than previous versions. The new bots, also significantly faster and more agile, could someday be used to pollinate fruits and vegetables ...

Biologists at the University of Costa Rica have uncovered 16 new species of leafhoppers after examining insect collections that sat untouched in museums for over three decades. The find also includes ...

Corn rootworm larvae chew on and tunnel into the roots of corn plants, which can sever primary and secondary roots. A new insect control tool from Syngenta, Plinazolin, is now registered by the U.S.

Scientists have identified a new species of non-biting midge—a type of small fly—from 151-million-year-old specimens discovered by an amateur fossil hunter. Louise Reily / Australian Museum Amateur ...

Seven new species of a distinctive frog-like insect have been discovered by a scientist from Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) in Cambridge, England. Belonging to the genus Batracomorphus, the seven ...

Kayla Kolff received funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG), project number 274877981 (GRK-2185/1: DFG Research Training Group Situated Cognition). Animals respond to injury in many ways.

Few creatures in nature can camouflage themselves as convincingly as a group of insects known as “walking leaves.” Using specimens from museum and private collections, researchers have identified ...

A Greek heiress was found dead inside her England apartment after being discharged from a hospital over a troublesome insect bite, according to reports. Marissa Laimou, 30, was discovered dead in her ...

Recently, on a chilly early morning, I noticed a lovely, tiny, pink moth hunkered down on a deep purple salvia blossom. The insect was so small—smaller than a postage stamp—you had to be up close to ...