Insects are essential for ecosystems, but mounting evidence suggests many populations are collapsing under modern pressures.

Scientists discover that a queen ants of the Messor genus produce males from another species to breed hybrid workers in ...

Anime battles today have amazing production value and choreography, but a vast majority don't hold a candle to 2011's Hunter ...

Authorities launch an independent review of Australia’s national fire ant eradication program to evaluate the country’s fight ...

Meet the Messor ibericus harvester ant, the only animal on record that clones another animal to carry out its lifecycle, ...

Ko Mochizuki of the University of Tokyo has discovered that Vincetoxicum nakaianum, a dogbane species native to Japan described for the first time by ...

Just when we thought we've seen it all, up pops some bizarre but adorable-looking animal that we never even knew existed.

It’s easy to forget that plants are living, moving, reactive organisms when to the human eye they appear to swoosh about so passively. Every now and then a species comes along that reminds you of this ...

Millipedes aren’t perhaps the world’s most sought-after animals, but in all those legs, there is chemical gold. The humble ...

With over 5 million species of insects, some species will inevitably benefit from the same changing conditions that harm ...

Sweet bribes buy plants survival: ants act as loyal bodyguards, defending against herbivores but sometimes disrupting ...

Republicans in the New Mexico Senate announced this week that they’re convening a legislative task force to tackle the ...