Despite the problems the cold can cause for farmers, gardeners, and homeowners, a cold winter can be a welcome event from a pest management perspective.

Birds struggle to find good places to nest, yet insects evolved the ability to make anything—wood, leaves, dirt, water, even bodies (especially bodies)—a nursery. If there is a single feature ...

Mayflies don't bite and adults only live for a day, but you don't want to get stuck in a swarm. Here's what to know about the ...

Insect body parts have names a lot like ours — the head, thorax (chest), and abdomen. But insects are also very different from us in many ways, including: They have a hard outer skeleton, instead of ...

A handful of new studies moves the needle toward a consensus on the long-disputed question of whether insect wings evolved from legs or from the body wall, but the devil is in the details. Jef Akst ...

The strange globes crowning Bocydium’s body resemble globs of Cordyceps, an insect-killing fungus common in rainforests. Though the pronota are large, they’re also hollow and lightweight ...

It could be such a wonderful summer's day - were it not for the mosquitoes by the lake that are feasting on you. Or the bees ...

Her PhD at Duke University focused on the role of oxygen in insect body size regulation. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Arizona State University, she became a science writer for federal agencies ...

Other participants at the Aalst Carnival wore fake hooked noses and waved a sign saying “don’t tell the truth about Jews.” AALST, Belgium (JTA) — Caricatures of Jews, including ones ...

Using two species of flies from different climates -- one from the cool, high-altitude forests of Northern California, the other hailing from the hot, dry deserts of the Southwest -- scientists ...