University of California, Irvine materials scientists discover design secrets of nearly indestructible insect. Southern California’s diabolical ironclad beetle has an exoskeleton so tough, it can…
Getting run over by a car is not a near-death experience for the diabolical ironclad beetle. How the beetle survives could inspire the development of…
For a honey bee, few things are more important than recognizing your nestmates. Being able to tell a nestmate from an invader could mean the…
The research could help development of new pest control methods. A unique study conducted by University of Georgia entomologists led to the discovery of a…
It’s one of the world’s deadliest animals, and it has a taste for human blood: the mosquito. Mosquitoes spread diseases like malaria, dengue, and yellow…
If you want a dog to hunt something down, it helps to let them sniff an item to pick up the scent. Now, researchers reporting…
Researchers have observed black imported fire ants using sand to draw liquid food out of containers when faced with the risk of drowning. This is…
Running into an unseen spiderweb in the woods can be scary enough, but what if you had to worry about a spiderweb – and the…
Small bivalved crustacean ostracods are the most abundant fossil arthropods since the Ordovician and play an important role in paleoenvironmental reconstruction and evolutionary biology. The…
Researchers at Washington State University have predicted how and where the Asian giant hornet, an invasive newcomer to the Pacific Northwest, popularly dubbed the “murder…
A team of University of Queensland researchers has revealed why male funnel-web spiders develop much deadlier venom than their female counterparts. Led by the University…
Researchers isolated molecules present in the larvae of a blue light-emitting fungus gnat that inhabits the Appalachians; the study will help elucidate human diseases and…
Described by the ‘father of zoogeography’ and co-author of the theories of evolution and natural selection, the species hasn’t been reexamined since 1866. An over…
Why people perceive motion in some static images has mystified not only those who view these optical illusions but neuroscientists who have tried to explain…
In a 99-million-year-old preserved amber fossil, researchers get a detailed glimpse into how ‘Hell Ants’ hunted with scythe-like mandibles and horn appendages. In findings published…
Of about 3,500 mosquito species around the world, only a few have taken to specifically targeting people for biting, making them important spreaders of infectious…
Mind games aren’t exclusive to humans. Cicadas infected with the parasitic fungus Massospora unknowingly engage in trickery with their fellow insects, resulting in effective disease…
A paper published July 7, 2020, in the open access journal PLOS Biology outlines a roadmap for creating, for the first time, an agreed list…