14-12-30 In the city that never sleeps, it's easy to overlook the insects underfoot. But that doesn't mean they're not working hard. A new study from North Carolina State University shows that insects and other arthropods play a significant role in disposing...

14-11-10 An international team of more than 100 researchers--including Dr. Michelle Trautwein of the California Academy of Sciences--has published the first modern roadmap of insect evolution. Understanding how insects are related uncovers their true ecologi...

14-10-17 Scientists have shown for the first time that when insect larvae follow a leader to forage for food, both leaders and followers benefit, growing much faster than if they are in a group of only leaders or only followers. The work gives new insight in...

14-08-14 Scientists who sequenced the genome of the Antarctic midge（蚊，蠓） suspect the genome's small size -- the smallest in insects described to date -- can probably be explained by the midge's adaptation to its extreme living environment. The midge is...

14-07-31 Scientists are searching through a massive collection of 20-million-year-old amber found in the Dominican Republic more than 50 years ago, and the effort is yielding fresh insights into ancient tropical insects and the world they inhabited. When the...

14-05-29 Swimming fish do not appear to use their collision warning system in the same way as flying insects, according to new research from Lund University in Sweden that has compared how zebra fish and bumblebees avoid collisions. The fish surprised the re...

14-05-10 A genomic investigation by University of British Columbia researchers has revealed that a lethal parasite infecting a wide range of insects actually originated from pond scum（绿藻类层） , but has completely shed its green past on its evolutionary j...

14-05-04 Observations of insects and their feeding marks on leaves in modern forests confirm indications from fossil leaf deposits that the diversity of chewing damage relates directly to diversity of the insect population that created it, according to an in...

14-02-28 A certain mantis grew extraordinarily stout（结实的） and robust. When he walked around in the backyard, brandishing（挥舞） his two powerful forelimbs. He could easily catch some smaller insects such as locusts, crickets, bugs, etc. Since he was st...

13-12-13 A nectar-feeding bat that was thought to eat insects in passing has been discovered to target its moving prey with stealth（秘密） precision, according to new research by a scientist at Queen Mary University of London. The researchers uncovered for...