While most animals reproduce sexually, some species rely solely on females for parthenogenetic reproduction. Even in these ...

With bloated bellies and hairy legs, female flies try to look bigger to get food from courting mates. But male flies, in turn ...

A new study examining stick and leaf insect species has found evidence of convergent evolution, with all of the insects evolving similar characteristics despite diverging long ago. Convergent ...

In the insect world things are often not what they seem, especially if you're a hungry predator. For 250 million years, insects have survived because they often appear to be something other than ...

For Professor Michal Segoli of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, these tiny creatures are a lifelong fascination and the ...

Get one insider’s take on the new pests growers face, and some of the new management options available to them.

Both symbiosis and horizontal gene transfer have strongly influenced the evolution of insects," says Roy Kirsch. Dynamic evolution of pectinases The analyses also revealed that the vast majority ...

Some biologists speculate that animals will get smaller with global warming to reduce heat stress. While this may be true of warm-blooded animals, what about exotherms like insects? Thanks to a ...

Based upon observations of social insects, he reasoned that the extent ... Whereas kin selection likely underlies the evolution of many cooperatively breeding societies, it alone cannot explain ...

By studying them, we’re not just learning about their world; we’re finding ways to make our own world more sustainable," Prof ...