A meadow grasshopper (Pseudochorthippus parallelus). This species is widespread across most of Europe and is commonly used as a model organism in evolutionary biology. If an experiment is repeated ...

Long before humans reached orbit, insects had already shown they could handle the hurdles of spaceflight. Light, highly adaptable and nutritionally rich, these resilient animals present an attractive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists from diverse universities conducted controlled experiments to determine how big-eared bats detect insects sitting on ...

Even at levels safe for humans, air pollution can disrupt the way some insects communicate with plants, and with each other.

Tropical insects are running out of thermal room. A growing body of peer-reviewed research shows that species living near the equator already operate so close to their maximum heat tolerance that even ...

Humans tend to fear bed bugs, and rightly so. The bloodsuckers are tough to get rid of once they've entered a home. But new research has, for the first time, identified one thing the bugs seem to fear ...

It’s a question we’ve all wondered at some point in our lives: why do insects spend their evenings swarming around and bopping into artificial lights? Scientists have now come up with an answer using ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — When soybean plants survive attacks from insects and periods of drought, they remember. While plants don’t remember in the way animals do, research out of the Arkansas ...