Imagine the scale of raindrops if you were the size of a small bird. Or mosquito. Flying through a drizzle should be deadly!

While sexual reproduction is the predominant strategy among animals, some species have evolved the ability to reproduce asexually ...

Spix’s disc-winged bats shrieked when they were first shown mealworms, a new food for them. Were they alarmed, or were they ...

The blowfly larvae bodies have evolved to closely resemble those of the termites, the researchers report February 10 in Current Biology. Inside the nest, termites recognize each other through touch, ...

Mosquitoes cause around a million deaths per year. So, scientists are coming up with genetic engineering techniques that ...

Spiders are declining in livestock-grazed areas, while ticks and mites are increasing. This change affects ecosystems and ...

In the frozen world of Antarctica, one tiny insect has mastered the art of survival. The Antarctic midge, the only insect ...

A research team has developed two new autonomous navigation systems for cyborg insects to better navigate unknown, complex environments. The algorithms utilized only simple circuits that leveraged ...

Replacing native grazers with livestock can drastically influence the numbers of ground-dwelling arthropods like spiders, as well as that of ticks and mites that can spread vector-borne diseases ...

One small group of field naturalists have been given a glimpse behind usually closed doors at the Northern Territory's most significant library of insects.

They made the discovery accidentally during routine West Nile virus monitoring. Researchers discover virus for the first time ...