Scientists know very little about the assassin fly’s venomous saliva. “We don’t really know what the toxins are or how the venom works,” notes Dikow. “We don’t know how it compares to the venom in ...

The answer is split into two: the highest we’ve found a flying insect, and the highest we’ve proven an insect could theoretically fly. After all, just because a bee doesn’t want to summit ...

Insect expert Marlene Zuk describes how ants learn, why some crickets don't chirp and how various bugs mate in Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love and Language from the Insect World.