Using weather radar data, researchers estimated that roughly 100 trillion insects are flying above the United States on a ...

Concern about insect losses has grown steadily, but most evidence comes from small studies focused on certain species or places. That makes it hard to understand what is happening at larger scales.

A: The short answer is that these small black bugs in the house that aren’t fruit flies could be a number of different types of insects, from gnats to ants to flies. While gnat bugs are technically a ...

It takes Mandela Fernández-Grandon 15 minutes to train a hoverfly, a harmless wasp look-alike. The entomologist at the University of Greenwich, UK, immobilises each tiny insect in a cocoon-like holder ...

Cicadas are persistent pests and make a lot of noise. Here's what you need to know about where they're emerging this year, and how you can deal with the noise without losing your mind. Jen Karner has ...

Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...

William Hawkes received research funding from The Royal Society for his PhD. In 1950, ornithologists Elizabeth and David Lack were watching birds migrate through a Pyrenean mountain pass on the border ...

Q: My fashionable sister in law has always been envious of my back yard plantings. Her yard is about the same size as mine and not very tended so to speak. I’ve asked her why she doesn’t garden and ...

As NASA plans for long-term human missions beyond Earth, one question keeps resurfacing: how do you sustain life in places ...