The open oceans are harsh and hostile environments where insects might not be expected to thrive. In fact, only one insect group, ocean skaters, or water striders, has adapted to life on the open seas ...

Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...

Results from a recently published study suggest that efforts to reduce biological hitchhiking on live plant imports, often referred to as 'biosecurity,' are working. However, more than a century of ...

Times of San Diego will send you the top local and state news at 8 a.m., 365 days a year, plus alert you to major breaking news. Female Lord Howe Island stick insects have laid more than 500 eggs at ...

AS a medium for the study of natural history the insects have no equals. The number and variety of their species and the diversity of their habits are such that they afford unrivalled opportunities ...

Paleontologists, including researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN), have described the oldest insect larval feeding tunnels inside leaves, also known as leaf mines, along with ...

entmain copy 39088019137645 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Contents 1. The evolution of ideas on insect metamorphosis -- 2. A spectacular diversity of forms and ...

Scientists have shed light on the evolutionary biology and distribution of Stenopsyche caddisflies, a common insect in Japanese rivers and a local delicacy. The discovery also identified new genetic ...

Between Jan 17 and April 19, the public can walk among 37 giant, magnified portraits of insects at the ArtScience Museum’s ...

(WJW) — An insect found on the side of a Walmart in Arkansas is exciting and mystifying researchers all while making history. The Polystoechotes punctata, commonly known as the giant lacewing, ...

Crawl your way into the fascinating world of insects at ArtScience Museum’s latest exhibition, . Sometimes deemed as pests, ...

If you're happy about reading this story in English instead of French, thank a mosquito. Specifically, thank Aedes aegypti, also known as yellow fever mosquitos. In 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte was trying ...