John E. Woodmansee Photo: Tobacco hornworm on a tomato plant that has been attacked by a parasitic Braconid wasp. The white capsules on its back are the pupal stage of the tiny wasp. Braconid larvae ...

This is the time of migration triggered by later sunrises and earlier sunsets, mostly seen with birds now, especially hawks, kestrels and bald eagles at Hawk Ridge. Other raptors — geese, blackbirds, ...

Robots helped achieve a major breakthrough in our understanding of how insect flight evolved. The study is a result of a six-year long collaboration between roboticists and biophysicists. Robots built ...

Some insects can flap their wings so rapidly that it’s impossible for instructions from their brains to entirely control the behaviour. Building tiny flapping robots has helped researchers shed light ...

Winter transforms the world around us, blanketing landscapes in snow and silencing the buzz of summer. Yet, while we may retreat indoors to escape the cold, insects face a far greater challenge: ...

Welcome to FTW Explains, a guide to catching up on and better understanding stuff going on in the world. Have you seen something about some insects called the spotted lanternfly and seen that you're ...

Giant prehistoric insects may not have depended on high oxygen levels after all. Scientists now think something else must ...

There are quite a lot of insect species in the world. Experts say that there are approximately 5.5 million insect species all over the globe, although only one million have been named yet. The ...

Those two-headed flies swarming Houston right now are actually lovebugs, and this is why they're back.

In a remarkable scientific achievement, researchers have made significant strides in understanding the intricate biomechanics of insect wings, with a particular focus on the wing hinge mechanism of ...

While not dangerous in the same way blood-sucking pests are, they still aren't guests you want to host.