The wood-feeding cockroach’s cannibalistic love bites lead to a lasting bond. Afterward, the pair prefer each other over all ...

Photo of invasive ladybug reveals how beetles fly: two rigid spotted wing covers protect delicate folding flight wings hidden ...

A new study focused on cryptic species—animals that look the same but are genetically different—found that they’re more widespread among vertebrates than we previously thought.

An injured monarch butterfly has been given a second chance to fly after a rare wing transplant using donor wings from a dead insect. Wildlife rehabilitator Janine Bendicksen performed the five minute ...

What looks like a quiet cornfield is actually a busy biological factory. Corn earworm larvae eat through kernels, transform in the soil, and later rise into warm night currents as long-distance fliers ...

An analysis of hoverfly flight shows that wing design, not faster flapping, enables the smallest species to generate enough lift to fly. The study, published today in eLife as the final Version of ...

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Le Roy et al quantify wing morphology and wing kinematics across twenty eight and eight hoverfly species, respectively; the aim is to identify how weight support during hovering is ensured across body ...

A research team led by Prof. Huang Diying from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) has identified three species of Jurassic orthopterans—an ...

Eighteen eggs of O. sulcius were obtained in April, 2023, in São Bento do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil (-26.249441, -49.382493), collected on an unidentified species of Bamboo (Poaceae), and were ...

Archaeologists excavated a tomb in South Korea and found a 1,400-year-old crown decorated with insect wings in a first-of-its-kind find. Photo from Korea Heritage Service Sifting through the rocky ...