Sykes observed Pheidole providens bring rain-soaked grass seeds and grains of Guinea Corn out of the nest and place them on the grass to dry. He called them “Harvester ants”. These species regularly ...

The first complete 3D reconstruction of the compound eye of a minute wasp species sheds light on the nuts and bolts of size reduction.

An ant that disappears into the forest floor, a bird that demands attention from mates—for these animals, an inky black ...

A proposed bioconversion system effectively transforms plastic waste into biochar, addressing environmental challenges and ...

Wizzie Brown, our go-to insect expert, said that for any insect ... Those are going to be typically predators. “But we also have some aquatic species that actually live in kind of gross areas. So they ...

IT is a low-key intuition, not spiteful or malicious, but pervasive: in the minds of most Americans the incoming Nixon Administration seems to represent the comeback of the Wasp: the white Anglo ...

New research has found an insect species with markings that are so black that they’re ‘superblack ... As they write in their paper, these structural colors “are formed in nature by ...

Australian scientists have discovered a new species of the deadly funnel-web spider that is bigger and more venomous than its relatives, nicknaming it "Big Boy." In research released Monday ...

Similarly, black wasps make nests. Contrary to yellow jackets or paper wasps, the great black wasp drills their nest in the ground. They are generally solitary wasps who do not construct massive ...

A larger and more venomous species of one of the world's deadliest spiders has been confirmed by Australian scientists. Nicknamed 'big boy', it can grow up to 9cm (3.54 inches) compared with 5cm ...

It could take anywhere from days to weeks to identify the remains of people killed in the Eaton and Palisades fires using dental records or DNA, said Dr. Odey Ukpo, L.A. County’s chief medical ...

Flint's flexible, rechargeable paper batteries could one day replace their lithium-ion counterparts in your smartwatch, phone and more. Katie a UK-based news reporter and features writer.