This article was originally featured on Undark. Bees have long impressed behavioral scientist Lars Chittka. In his lab at Queen Mary University of London, the pollinators have proven themselves ...

The putrefying flesh of a dead animal is as unpleasant to scientists as to anyone else. As a result, relatively little research has been done on the decay processes that can rapidly reduce a dead body ...

Explore the world of insects by adding an entomology minor to your graduate degree. This program is specially designed for students pursuing graduate research involving insects. You will deepen your ...

Distinguished Professor of Entomology Jay Rosenheim noticed a trend during his office hours a few years ago: Many of his undergraduate students wanted research lab experience but were unsure how to ...

After meeting medical entomologists during his time serving in the United States Air Force, Thor Freeman, now a sophomore at the University of Delaware, became very aware of the risks that pests have ...

A recent study provides evidence that some results of behavioral experiments with insects cannot be fully reproduced. So far, possible reproducibility problems have been little discussed in this ...

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Attendees handle walking stick bugs at the Bohart Museum on Picnic Day. (Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis) Insects are the most diverse group of animals. In fact, they outnumber all other life forms on Earth ...

In 1988, police officers in Australia came for Ian Dadour. Not because the entomologist was under arrest, but because they needed his expertise. Investigators asked Dadour to estimate the ages of ...

When you want to learn about ecology, biodiversity, climate change or even humanity, you might start by popping open your favorite internet search engine. But thanks to entomology, some of the best ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A June special edition of the Journal of Economic Entomology focuses on the potential for using drones in a number of different ways for pest ...