Insects do not just show up—they take over patios, gardens, and kitchens when conditions allow it. Many homeowners want a ...

A carnivorous fruit fly living in bubbling African streams may sound like a fever dream. However, with the help of DNA analysis of a pinned insect from a museum in Zurich, researchers have managed to ...

As the story goes, fly-angling aristocrats actually banned the use of this colorful wet fly on the fabled chalk streams. Because the fly impersonated a baitfish instead of an insect, the hoi polloi of ...

Moonlight shapes how red-necked nightjars hunt, migrate, conserve energy, and raise chicks throughout the year.

The tiny, annoying pest can wreak $6 billion in losses annually to U.S. cattle production due to decreased weight gain or ...

A tiny spider discovered in Colombia, Pikelinia floydmuraria, lives on city walls and surprises observers by hunting much ...

You go to look out a window on a Tehachapi spring morning, and you see a large-winged insect with long gangly legs, vainly ...

If you’ve been outside the past few weeks, you’ve likely noticed the infamous bugs flying around in pairs, mating while ...

One redditor, thinking about this, asked in r/explainlikeimfive: What happens to insects that accidentally travel long ...

Discover 10 animals with the shortest lifespan on Earth, from mayflies that live for a day to luna moths surviving less than ...

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

Love is in the air in Houston — in the form of the ubiquitous, black-and-orange lovebugs dotting walls and splotching ...