About 70 per cent of the species on Earth are insects. They are fundamental components of most ecosystems: they comprise half ...

Blooming flowers provide natural nectar sources, but hummingbirds primarily eat bugs, including an assortment of gnats, ...

Insects make up to 90% of all animal species on the planet, and most of them can be found in the tropics, the regions around ...

Learn more about a newly observed insect behavior in which smaller ants clean larger ants.

Many of us think of bugs as creepy, wiggly little things that can bite, sting, eat plants and, in general, are a nuisance. Even the word “bug” is used in ...

In the deserts of southeastern Arizona, harvester ants congregate with serrated jaws agape outside the nests of much smaller cone ants. However, the nests’ inhabitants are not threatened. Instead, ...

“If we look at kind of the different time periods throughout history, large insects lived in the Permian period. Those were ...

A wide range of plant species rely on insects for pollination, but the diversity of these insect-pollinated plants have decreased dramatically in recent decades Wild flowers are essential to bees and ...

Herrera of the Tecnológico de Monterrey is working to advance the use of insect ingredients, conducting studies on the use of ...