Tag: insects

Velvet ants, actually flightless wasps, boast an ultrablack exoskeleton thanks to dense nanostructures.

The mini-bug and water strider open up new realms in the field of small robots.

Solar panels don't need to be an environmental desert. They can be tailored to accommodate wildlife.

It's us. The way we're treating the environment is the problem.

It's the most accurate image of an insect brain we've ever had.

We do a lot of bad things to insects, and we shrug it off by thinking insects don't feel any ...

You can't see them, but there are millions of insects flying over your head each day.

Climate change and habitat loss are triggering a global drop in insect numbers -- and it's not really that hidden.

Maintaining these sites as meadows instead of grassy areas can work wonders for pollinators.

This could have a cascading effect on other wildlife that depend on insects for food.

Colors can tell many things about the behavior of long-extinct species.

The number of insects has dropped 25% in the last 30 years.

All the sci-fi I read as a kid is becoming just sci.

Light pollution is really messing up their romantic life.

I know you hate them, but hear us out.

Not good!

A stripe a day keeps the bug bites away!

Sometimes not tidying up can be a good thing.

The amazing story of an insect presumed dead for decades.

Human laundry is a magnet for bed bugs.

Wasps should really form their own labor union.

All it takes to make them happy is some sugar.

Spiders' diets aren't limited to juicy insect bits. They spice up their menus with vegetarian courses too, zoologists from the ...

Despite what you might have seen or not seen, there are actually some fireflies living west of the Rocky Mountains, ...

An international team of more than 100 scientists has undertaken a most complex and challenging task: they've determined the timings and ...

In a breakthrough in robotics, researchers have programmed a swarm consisting of a whooping 1,024 members which can assemble in ...

A while ago, Andrei published a post in which he uploaded and spoke about seven key charts that show plain ...

Some of you might find it surprising to hear that a lot of animals engage in homosexual behavior.  Close to ...

Magnified view of the first known biological gears present at the hind legs of the issus, a fast accelerating hopping ...

  While browsing reddit the other day, I came across a most peculiar finding. One of the users, Decapod73 or Tony Alexander in ...

The dung beetle is an extreme survivor. Not only does it feed on poop, but it also fashions a hefty ...

Captioned is a nearly intact fossil of Fuxianhuia protensa. The inset shows the fossilized brain in the head of another ...

Defense, like offence, is expensive for any animal. It takes resources and a lot of energy, and for some, it ...

Scientists have uncovered pieces of fossilized amber containing tiny female insects called thrips, which upon closer inspections were found to ...

Last year, we reported on one of the most gruesome and horrific acts that goes on in nature; it seems ...

Neurons are the absolute core components of the nervous system that transmit information through electrical and chemical signals. I once ...

The leading theory that explains why zebras are striped (remember the age old riddle? black stripes on white or white ...

After a devastating earthquake, most often buildings will crumble trapping people inside its ruins. Search and rescue teams work effortsly ...

In what can only be described as an incredible natural engineering feat, fire ants in times of floods have the ...

Tom Hardwidge is an exceptional English artist who loves to sculpture insects, he calls arthrobots, from... ammunition. Don't be alarmed ...