Fresh, nutritious food is hard to come by in space. Interstellar Lab hopes to solve that with its closed-loop farm full of ...

When we walked with a colleague into an aspen forest near Madison, Wisconsin, in the early spring of 2021, we expected to ...

Insects are invertebrates, referring to their lack of internal skeletons and spinal columns. Most grow rapidly, but with ...

"It was like a festival of all different insects because the leafcutter ants had made the hole and then the mosquitos had come in, and then somehow grasshoppers and moths and everybody had come in." ...

Some viruses, known as arboviruses, use insects to spread their infections to other hosts, such as humans and animals.

Glen Hood, Ph.D., assistant professor of biological sciences in Wayne State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences ...

Viruses are master parasites that have adapted to infect many host species. Some viruses even use multiple hosts to spread ...

Dragonflies can live for more than a year, but most of their life is not spent as the adults many are accustomed to seeing.

Researchers have found several promising ways to thwart the fungus, which causes the deadly white-nose syndrome in bats.

Scientists who study bifenthrin, the pesticide many N.H. towns have turned to, say it’s highly toxic to insects and it can ...

Hyner Run State Park and Little Pine State Park WHEN: Friday, Sept. 20 at 2 p.m. (Little Pine) and 6 p.m. (Hyner Run). NOTES: Join the naturalist for some fall birding at Hyner Run and/or Little Pine ...

The sound of steam whistles, hissing cockroaches, bees, cicadas and the excited screaming of children were combined during Lake Metroparks 35th annual Bug Day, held at Penitentiary Glen Reservation, ...