Most love stories don’t start with mutual wing consumption. But for one species of wood-eating cockroach found in Asia, ...

Ants are known for many things. They fight, bite and sometimes compete for every crumb. We can now possibly add cleaning ...

Mark Moffett, a research associate at the National Museum of Natural History, specializes in capturing the often-overlooked ...

In many parts of East Africa, small pools of water that form after heavy rainfall are ideal breeding sites for the Anopheles mosquitoes that transmit malaria. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of ...

A large-scale experiment shows that warmth brings bees and wasps out of hibernation earlier—leaving some of them with poorer starting conditions. This is particularly true for species in cooler ...

The European blister beetle lays thousands of eggs in the spring. When they hatch, the bright-orange larvae shimmy up flower ...

Tussock moth caterpillars are creating a seasonal buzz in the region. While the insects are native to North America, ...

Allergy affects more than one billion people worldwide—and the number is rising. For many, it means mild symptoms such as ...

An unidentified woman shocked doctors when she started sneezing nearly one-inch worms after suffering from mysterious sinus ...

As summer heats up in Central Texas, insects emerge from dormancy, bringing both anxiety and benefits; experts remind us that ...

Ramsey has been shedding light on the fascinating world of honey bees by bringing science education, via song and lecture, to ...

The corn earworm and the tomato fruitworm are the same insect, just feeding on two different crops. If you plant tomatoes ...