Results from a recently published study suggest that efforts to reduce biological hitchhiking on live plant imports, often referred to as 'biosecurity,' are working. However, more than a century of ...

The open oceans are harsh and hostile environments where insects might not be expected to thrive. In fact, only one insect group, ocean skaters, or water striders, has adapted to life on the open seas ...

Researchers have identified three fossil insects, including a 40-million-year-old extinct ant, inside two pieces of amber ...

(WJW) — An insect found on the side of a Walmart in Arkansas is exciting and mystifying researchers all while making history. The Polystoechotes punctata, commonly known as the giant lacewing, ...

Scientists have shed light on the evolutionary biology and distribution of Stenopsyche caddisflies, a common insect in Japanese rivers and a local delicacy. The discovery also identified new genetic ...

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Deep under the Jurassic rock beds of New South Wales, scientists discovered fossilized insects that push back the history of one of the world’s most hardy families of flies. These fragile traces, ...

Paleontologists, including researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN), have described the oldest insect larval feeding tunnels inside leaves, also known as leaf mines, along with ...

September 17, 2021 by Fred Miller Special to The Commercial If you're happy about reading this story in English instead of French, thank a mosquito. Specifically, thank Aedes aegypti, also known as ...