How Do Periodical Cicadas Know When To Emerge?
How do 17-year cicadas, which live underground as nymphs, track the passage of time so they all emerge…
Bumblebees Have Learned to Read Simple Morse Code–an Ability Seen Only in Humans and Vertebrates
SWNS A new study is the first to show that an insect can differentiate between different durations of…
Bees with ‘devil-like horns’ found in Australia, named ‘lucifer’
The bees’ name, Megachile lucifer, was inspired by the Netflix series “Lucifer,” which one of the researchers was…
Insects on the space menu
Science & Exploration 07/11/2025 671 views 16 likes Long before humans reached orbit, insects had already shown they…
Handheld Macro Mastery: How to Capture Stunning Close-Ups Without a Tripod
Photographer Chris McGinnis has never taken a macro photograph in the field with a tripod in his entire…
Spiders weave alarm system through web zigzags for prey detection
For decades, arachnologists debated the actual purpose of stabilimenta, a special thread spiders weave into their webs. Now,…
Close-Up Photographer of the Year Celebrates Minuscule Marvels and Delicate Details — Colossal
The shortlist for this year’s Close-Up Photographer of the Year competition has arrived. After deliberating for a total…
Emergency Butterfly Wing Transplant Is a Success Watched by Millions on Social Media
Sweetbriar Nature Center – via Storyful With a pioneering procedure, a nature center in New York made…
Honeybees dance includes higher cognitive complexity than thought
Researchers studied the famous “waggle dance” of honeybees, which they use to communicate to one another about the…
Glimpse Spectacularly Tiny Worlds in Winning Videos from Nikon’s Small World In Motion Competition — Colossal
From a remarkable demonstration of flower self-pollination to algae swimming in a water droplet in a Japanese 50…
Bee Stingers Inspire Superior and Comfortable Continuous Drug Delivery
New wearable microneedle patches mimic bee stings to provide painless, long-lasting drug delivery – credit, Professor Wonku Kang…
‘Butterfly’ Explores 4,000 Years of Our Fascination with Lepidoptera in Art and Science — Colossal
Since time immemorial, we have been awed by the ornate patterns, metamorphosis, and migrations of butterflies and moths.…