In 2025, researchers on Barro Colorado Island in Panama found something that looked almost like a prank played by the ...
Scientists rethink why giant insects once ruled the skies, finding oxygen may not explain their size or disappearance.
The problem with diffusion is that it’s notoriously slow. The oxygen constraint hypothesis argued that the larger the insect ...
A rare rainforest insect, Arota festae, starts life bright pink before slowly turning green, revealing a surprising ...
After meeting medical entomologists during his time serving in the United States Air Force, Thor Freeman, now a sophomore at the University of Delaware, became very aware of the risks that pests have ...
Three hundred million years ago, dragonfly-like creatures with wingspans stretching 70 centimeters patrolled the skies of a world nothing like our own. These griffinflies, as paleontologists call ...
Insects around the world are expected to be thrown into chaos by the effects of man-made climate change. Changes in temperatures may throw off their delicate interactions with plants and other insect ...
New technologies can revolutionise insect research and environmental monitoring. By using DNA, images, sounds and flight patterns analysed by AI, it's possible to gain new insights into the world of ...
Contributors -- Preface -- Part I: Current issues in behavioral ecology of insect parasitoids -- 1. Optimal foraging behavior and efficient biological control methods / Nick J. Mills and Éric Wajnberg ...
Eliza Grames wasn’t planning to study insect population data, but postdoctoral scholars end up in unexpected places all the time. As a postdoc in Matt Forister’s insect ecology lab, she’s part of a ...
Emerald ash borer (EAB) is an invasive insect species responsible for the widespread death of millions of ash trees across the country. Stopping its spread is a daunting task, but University of ...
Insects are often seen as invaders due to high-profile species like the yellow-legged (Asian) hornet, the harlequin ladybird and fire ant. But new research reveals insects are also major victims of ...
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