INSECTS do not usually give us humans too much concern. However, if one studies even a tiny bit of natural history topics ...

When these crucial pollinating species visit flowers and other plants, they produce a number of characteristic sounds, such ...

How do insects perceive mechanical stress? This is a question of interest in many different fields, including comparative ...

Like cellulose, the building block of plant cell walls, chitin is made ... enabling speed and agility. The tiny, delicate scales covering insects such as butterflies also contain chitin.

It was after their tiny plane crashed into the Bolivian jungle earlier this week that their problems really began.

Outdoor columnist Ben Smith reminds us to be on the lookout for poison ivy as we enter summer.

UK-based startup Green Bioactives is preparing for the commercial launch of high-value botanicals made via plant cell culture ...

An orphaned black bear cub in California is being cared for by biologists in fur coats and bear masks. The baby bear was ...

University of Alberta research is showing how trees and fungi team up to survive and stay healthy against insect attacks—an ...

UC Irvine scientists developed bioluminescent RNA tags, "tiny guiding lights," using luciferase to track RNA in real-time, ...

which receive input from HS cells and send signals to the fly's motor system via the ventral nerve cord (VNC)—insects' equivalent of the vertebrate spinal cord. Using so-called two-photon ...