Over 70 new species, from insects to dinosaurs, were identified in 2025 by combining fieldwork, museum collections, and ...
Murder hornets have a new name in the state of Washington. The invasive insect, which is also known as the Asian giant hornet, has been classified as the northern giant hornet by the Entomological ...
The largest organization of insect experts in the world is dropping its common names for two insects — the gypsy moth and gypsy ant — because it says the names are inappropriate and offensive. The ...
Nature is often described as a battlefield, but for some predators, it is a masquerade ball. While most creatures use ...
Anophthalmus hitleri is a small, amber-colored beetle native to a few damp caves in Slovenia. It has one glaring problem. Specimens of Anophthalmus hitleri, a beetle named 86 years ago by an Austrian ...
In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have found the answers to keeping them both alive A veery gets ready to rise into ...
Using two species of flies from different climates -- one from the cool, high-altitude forests of Northern California, the other hailing from the hot, dry deserts of the Southwest -- scientists ...
A new review paper finds that climate change is pounding insects in a wide variety of ways all over the world. Because insects are so sensitive to temperature change, climate change is impacting them ...
Using weather radar data, researchers estimated that roughly 100 trillion insects are flying above the United States on a ...