For Professor Michal Segoli of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, these tiny creatures are a lifelong fascination and the ...

Honey bee and bumble bee nests are not usually a problem and should be preserved when possible. Social wasps are a group of related insects belonging primarily to the family Vespidae (sometimes called ...

I found this online: “While animals are stuck on glue boards, they cry out loudly in pain and have been known to bite through their limbs, attempting to free themselves. Even if found and rescued, ...

But Drs Rossi and Welch were happy to entertain a wilder hypothesis: that the bats might, instead, be able to feed off proteins in the way some bloodsucking insects do. Tsetse flies and female ...

While this may be true of warm-blooded animals, what about exotherms like insects? Thanks to a 65-year-old grasshopper collection, scientists have documented that some species -- those ...

Mao Zedong's Great Sparrow Campaign aimed to eliminate pests but led to ecological imbalance and a catastrophic famine.

As the fascinating clip above explains, this insect can survive being frozen solid over winter ... Without available water inside their bodies, very few animals can survive. However, the mountain ...

Fathiya Khamis, a molecular biologist at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, or ICIPE, said that while previous studies have identified a few insect species capable of degrading ...

Faced with a rash of shark deaths marked by brain swelling, Canadian and American scientists are trying to solve a marine ...

Its backdrop is about 10 percent painted, and a table holds elements that would go into the scene: a fur, a sculpted body form, glass eyes, fake leaves, a few insects and more. Another display ...

The biggest danger for wildlife is the aftermath. But many species have evolved to rely on the opportunities created by ...