As night falls and the city bustle dies down, another kind of life creeps up on its citizens: Cockroaches lurk beneath cabinets and bed bugs crawl out of mattresses. These unwelcome guests have spread ...

A team of biologists in Montana and Germany has found that, regardless of type, those insects that express a protective stick ...

Ants and bees did not dominate the planet through strength or intelligence alone. Instead, they evolved extreme cooperation systems that shifted survival away from individuals and toward the group.

Stick insects keep evolving to have the same strange body plans over and over again, scientists have discovered. This evolutionary blueprint has enabled researchers to predict the critters' next ...

A research team has recreated the evolution of the eye in a physics simulation. The results show why nature chose such ...

Despite differences in shape and size all insects are characterized by a body organization that includes three units: a head, thorax and abdomen (panels A-B). In contrast all spiders (and other ...

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Once in a while we get asked, “how cold does it have to get to kill insects?” Perhaps it is important to understand why cold ...

Researchers have found that stick insects keep evolving the same 20 body plans, from the "tree lobster'" to the "bark hugger" and the "large-headed stick." When you purchase through links on our site, ...