Although the concept seems like something from science fiction, science is rapidly adopting it. Researchers have started ...

A Kobe University study shows that small aquatic beetles survive catfish attacks by resisting ingestion inside the catfish's ...

Insect pollination is vital for many fruits and food crops. From apples and berries to almonds, bees and other pollinators ...

“Four minutes is too long.” That’s the note undergraduate Chris Zuo sent me along with photos of countless mosquito bites on ...

A garden bursting with fresh spring leaves looks like a victory parade for nature. Unfortunately, the insect world treats that same parade like an all-you-can-eat buffet. March marks the moment when ...

Think plants are just ‘nice’? You haven’t met this cabinet of devious, clever and plain murderous botanical curiosities ...

Winter stoneflies are a puzzle for many fly fishers. With few insects hatching in the colder months of the year, a stonefly ...

An annual count of monarch butterflies conducted by the United States and Mexico as the insects migrate back and forth over ...

Most people have a garden story that ends the same way: the slugs won, or the heat hit early, or the soil just never seemed ...

A man was left hospitalised with a flesh-eating infection after a "pinprick" false widow spider bite left him with a hand "the size of a bowling ball". Chris Keegan, 40, from Coventry, woke up with a ...