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Scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of true bug that has claws. Amber from Myanmar’s Kachin region has preserved many fossils that reveal the animal diversity of a Cretaceous ...

Pro-environmental behavior increases among school students who participate in insect-related citizen science projects, according to new research. Pro-environmental behaviour increases among school ...

Dragonflies the size of hawks once stalked Earth’s skies. Scientists thought they knew why they’d gone away – but a decades old theory may have just been disproven ...

Astronomers have spotted clouds of vaporized sand on an exoplanet. And, weather radar data reveal insects in U.S. skies—100 ...

Entomologist Torsten Dikow, a leading expert on assassin flies, is working to connect a global community of researchers through the democratization of insect science Emma Saaty Torsten Dikow overlooks ...

A recent study provides evidence that some results of behavioral experiments with insects cannot be fully reproduced. So far, possible reproducibility problems have been little discussed in this ...

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But a new study published in Nature suggests it is also a human nutrition crisis — and that some of the most serious effects ...

The insects flying in circles around your porch light aren’t captivated by the light. Instead, they may have lost track of which way is up, high-speed infrared camera data suggest. Moths and other ...

Looking to add a little Magicicada to your life? Learn the ins and outs of starting an insect collection and watch the experts as they pin beetles, moths, and other insects at this virtual event.

It’s not everyday that you find a new organ in the body of not one, but three different groups of insects. That is, unless you’re the team of scientists who very recently discovered a sensory organ ...