A tiny fossil discovered exactly a century ago has caused an enormous change in our understanding of when flying insects ...

New research from Durham University highlights how insects have been part of human diets for thousands of years despite ...

Flying insects, such as fruit flies, bees, dragonflies and mosquitoes, can dart through narrow spaces and survive collisions with various objects. In contrast, many flying robots fall, suffer damage ...

A bizarre insect trapped in 99-million-year-old amber had flexible mouthparts nearly twice its body length, revealing an ...

The bumblebee-like insect was spotted near Paris after more than a century without a recorded sighting, raising questions ...

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In Zambia eating insects was historically a part of local food culture and reviving the practice could help households ...

More than 60% of Australia's known insects are unnamed and a mystery to science. Of an estimated 500,000 Australian species, roughly half are insects, but many aren't categorized. A group of ...

South Africa’s favourite insect is a master of disguise that mimics the flowers it hunts on and flashes bold spiral eyespots ...

New insect species are discovered on a regular basis—just this month researchers detailed a wasp that takes over another species' mind, a moth that was named after Donald Trump and two species of ...

Insect protein has faced many struggles: it's capital intensive, demand and supply were not balanced, and consumer disgust ...

A 99-million-year-old insect named after a Teletubbies character carried a bizarre feeding structure that defied every expectation researchers had about how insects survive, and the trees of the ...