According to a study published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, insects modify calling and mating behavior in anticipation of storms.
Curcurbit beetle,...
A study by entomologists from Bulgaria and Russia provides new interesting information on the life habits and the distribution of the giant water bug Lethocerus...
U.S. entomologists have found a strange new insect on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska.
Female Caurinus tlagu (Sikes DS / Stockbridge J)
The...
U.S. scientists have described a new extinct family of scorpionflies from fossils found in British Columbia and Washington state, most prominently at the...
An international team of entomologists from Brazil and the United States has described a new species of tiny insect.
The newly discovered forcepfly Austromerope...
U.S.-Spanish scientists have found evidence of what they say is the oldest known camouflaging behavior in insects.
This is an artist’s reconstruction...
One fly and two mites found in droplets of amber from northeastern Italy are about 100 million years older than any other amber arthropod – invertebrate...
A citizen scientist and professional taxonomists have jointly discovered an unusual new species of green lacewing.
Female Semachrysa jade (Guek Hock Ping)
Green...
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Yale University have discovered that grasshoppers stressed by spiders affect the productivity...
Dutch biologists have discovered that insects can use plants as green phones for communication with other bugs.
Ragwort plants show to act as phones that...
Scientists at the University of California in Santa Cruz have found why insects got smaller despite rising oxygen levels about 150 million years ago.
This...
A team of researchers at University of California in Berkeley has found that cockroaches can disappear in the blink of an eye by flinging themselves at...
Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have found how this blood-sucking insect can survive the high-speed impact of falling raindrops.
Free-flying...
A team of European scientists has found several specimens of thrips with pollen grains captured in amber, providing the oldest known evidence of insect...
A team of researchers from Auburn University has discovered a new trapdoor spider species from a well-developed housing subdivision in the heart of the...
Chinese scientists have discovered fossils of remarkable giant flea-like animals that lived millions years ago in what is now China.
An artist’s impression...
A team of researchers from the University of Nevada in Las Vegas has discovered an intriguing new scorpion in Death Valley National Park.
The new scorpion...
A team of researchers has discovered a new and unusual wasp species during an expedition to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
An adult male Megalara garuda...
An international team of researchers has reconstructed a song played by a prehistoric bushcricket some 165 million years ago.
A modern-day bushcricket...
A team of Japanese researchers has successfully demonstrated that loss of flight has been the major driving force for beetle diversification.
Carrion beetles:...
