Secret to Heliconius Butterflies’ Longevity May Be Hidden in Pollen
A team of entomologists led by the University of Bristol and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute has compiled…
Scientists Discover Bizarre 100-Million-Year-Old Insect With Giant Claws
Preserved in amber: the newly discovered bug species Carcinonepa libererrantes. Credit: Haug Scientists have discovered a previously unknown…
Cotton industry ‘alert but not alarmed’ by increasing numbers of bicoloured weevils in NT crops
A native insect appears to have developed a taste for cotton plants in the Northern Territory, with numbers…
Nationwide Bug Hunt to capture Australia’s insect, invertebrate underworld
A photographic census of Australia’s native insects and other bugs — and their unwelcome invasive counterparts — has…
This Bug Waves at You in the Forest. The Reason Surprised Scientists
Matador bug, Bitta alipes (former Anisoscelis alipes), a leaf-footed bug (family Coreidae) with impressive, large, colorful flags on…
Atlas Blue Butterfly Has 229 Pairs of Chromosomes, Scientists Find
Scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva in Spain have sequenced the genome…
Nocturnal Spiders Use Trapped Fireflies as Glowing Bait to Attract Additional Prey, Study Confirms
Sheet-web spiders Psechrus clavis have been known to use their body color and webs as visual cues to…