You’ve probably seen a hoverfly. It’s a small, bee-like insect that hovers over your flowers in summer. Though they look like ...

A new invasive insect is emerging in Central Ohio, and state officials want to know if you see one. Elm zigzag sawfly adults were trapped in Delaware County the week of April 15, according to the Ohio ...

When it comes to biodiversity, researchers and the public tend to focus on large-scale patterns. This overlooks a hidden but precious diversity: small, inconspicuous wasps, midges, flies, beetles and ...

(a) Number of observation records per 500-m elevational band. (b) Number of genera and the number of their observation records in the database. (c) Cumulative number of observation records of each ...

Analyses of amber show that insect larvae were already using a wide variety of tactics to protect themselves from predators 100 million years ago. Analyses of amber show that insect larvae were ...

Even Antarctica’s toughest native insect can’t escape the reach of plastic pollution. Scientists have discovered that Belgica ...

What LMU zoologists have discovered in samples of ancient amber – insect larvae with unusual morphologies and larvae of early flying insects. All fossils are time capsules. But unlike many other finds ...