A team of biologists in Montana and Germany has found that, regardless of type, those insects that express a protective stick- or leaf-like appearance all evolved the same basic body parts. In their ...

This Hawaiian caterpillar raids spiderwebs camouflaged in insect prey’s body parts, and it’s not above cannibalism in a pinch. Credit: Rubinoff lab/University of Hawaii, Manoa. We think of moths and ...

Recent research led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst evaluates how well machine learning can identify different insect species by their sound, from malaria-carrying mosquitoes and ...

The terms "bug" and "insect" are commonly used interchangeably in everyday language, yet scientifically, they refer to distinct categories of creatures. Insects belong to the vast class Insecta, ...

Playgrounds can host a variety of natural wonders – and, of course, kids! Now some students are not just learning about insects and spiders at school — they are putting them on the map and even ...

The findings reveal that insects developed modern patterns of herbivory long before flowering plants flourished, upending a long-held hypothesis Jack Tamisiea Paleontologist Conrad Labandeira, the ...