By Will HawkesAs I sprinted across the flower-rich meadow on the eastern coast of Cyprus, I could barely see my car. The air was full of tiny black dots, pelting like bullets past me. I hauled open ...

Insect-scale robots can squeeze into places their larger counterparts can't, like deep into a collapsed building to search ...

Shrimp look an awful lot like bugs. The exoskeletons, jointed legs and compound eyes of both groups of living things give ...

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This Swallowtail butterfly has multiple pairs of legs as a caterpillar, but they look completely different once it undergoes metamorphosis.

The eastern U.S. is about to be inundated with trillions of Brood XIV periodical cicadas—which were first documented by the ...

A team of ecologists from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) are leading an international initiative to investigate the ...

This specific butterfly was chosen to honor Ariel not just for its orange wings, but because Ariel is one of Jerusalem’s 70 ...

Insects are the dominant form of animal life on our planet, providing humans and wildlife with pollination, food, and ...