A fly is going about its day, buzzing here, buzzing there—but then, it starts behaving weirdly. Its movements become sluggish ...

Insects have a major vessel, which mostly looks like a giant tube, that runs from their head to their tail along their back.The "heart" is the section of this vessel that runs through the abdomen ...

Unlike some other arthropods, insects typically have six legs, two antennae, and a body segmented into three sections (head, thorax, and abdomen). Insects comprise a lot of the creatures you tend ...

The mandibles of the ants are its jaws; the petiole is the ant’s waist. Vector Mine/iStock via Getty Images Plus. Most insects also have wings, although a few, like fleas, don’t.

How do you make a cyborg cockroach? Apparently, the process only takes 15 to 20 minutes, the researchers say. While the insect is anesthetized with CO2, an ultra-thin silver wire is inserted into each ...

For the spring semester, 30 students added insects as food to their course load. Twice a week for 80 minutes, they attended lectures about entomology and the role bugs play in the world's food system.

An extraordinary extinct wasp found preserved in amber may have used its abdomen to grasp other insects like a Venus flytrap before laying its eggs on them. “It’s unlike anything I’ve ever ...

A severed ant head. A fly wing. A beetle abdomen. These body parts ripped from devoured insects festoon a newfound caterpillar’s protective coat. Dubbed the “bone collector,” this ...

Black Widows are jet-black, have a globular abdomen with a reddish or yellowish hourglass on the underside. They are found both indoors and outdoors, and prefer to nest in a sheltered areas like ...

This one-of-a-kind predatory strategy has never been seen in other insects. ... A Venus flytrap-like structure on the wasp’s abdomen held captives in place as the wasp deposited its eggs ...