A new study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution connects plant and insect physiology, chemical ecology, molecular ...

Phantom crane flies change the angle of their splayed legs to increase or reduce drag, helping them navigate varying winds.

Although the concept seems like something from science fiction, science is rapidly adopting it. Researchers have started ...

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Three-hundred-million years ago, Earth was very different. The continents had coalesced into Pangea, which was dominated in ...

In 2025, researchers on Barro Colorado Island in Panama found something that looked almost like a prank played by the ...

Washington — Like a moth to flame, many scientists and poets have long assumed that flying insects were simply, inexorably drawn to bright lights. But that's not exactly what's going on, a new study ...

Ever wondered if insects feel pain? We interact with them every day, and they're nearly 40% of all living species on Earth. Now new research explores the possibility that insects feel the subjective ...

In the pitch black hours nearing midnight last March on Barro Colorado Island in Panama, a team of scientists came across a ...

A recent study provides evidence that some results of behavioral experiments with insects cannot be fully reproduced. So far, possible reproducibility problems have been little discussed in this ...

The insects flying in circles around your porch light aren’t captivated by the light. Instead, they may have lost track of which way is up, high-speed infrared camera data suggest. Moths and other ...