BENGALURU: An international study published in Ecology Letters, ranked seventh globally, has highlighted the ecological ...

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

One invasive insect on the radar in New York is the SLF which feeds on more than 100 plants, including several crops such as ...

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 ...

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

A parasitic wasp castrates its moth larvae hosts by injecting them with a ‘domesticated’ virus that causes cells in the larvae’s testes to die. Now, scientists know exactly how the virus does its ...

While they may sound like pests, black soldier fly larvae could hold the key to reclaiming extreme environments.

Discover how pill bugs breathe with gill-like lungs, why they love damp places, and what happens when they dry out.

A beetle species’ larvae seem to bamboozle bees by smelling like flowers. This newly discovered deceptive strategy might be the first known example of an animal imitating floral scents, according to a ...

Dragonflies look delicate, almost peaceful - and that’s the lie. Beneath the surface, their larvae are ruthless ambush predators armed with biological weapons refined over hundreds of millions of ...