University of Alberta research is showing how trees and fungi team up to survive and stay healthy against insect attacks—an ...

The female lderfly lays her eggs in a dense, beautifully arranged brown egg nest. They usually lay their eggs on a blade of ...

Commonly referred to as “no-see-ums” in North America, these tiny pests are known as “punkies” in the Northeast, “five-O’s” in Florida and Alabama (due to their penchant for biting people around 5 p.m ...

Many plants in Texas landscapes are suitable hosts for aphids, including bedding plants, ash, barberry, boxelder, crape ...

Scientists say meat eating ants are cleaners of the savannah where dead bodies of insects, reptiles, birds and mammals are ...

The brightly colored insects have been reported in southeast Michigan ... Monarch specifically favor milkweeds because female monarchs lay their eggs on milkweeds and drink the milky sap that leaks ...

The brightly colored insects have been reported in southeast ... Monarch specifically favor milkweeds because female monarchs lay their eggs on milkweeds and drink the milky sap that leaks from ...

This remarkable disguise not only helps the gecko avoid becoming lunch, but also lets it ambush insects that wander too close. The leaf-tailed gecko is a perfect example of how some animals become one ...

This remarkable disguise not only helps the gecko avoid becoming lunch, but also lets it ambush insects that wander too close. The leaf-tailed gecko is a perfect example of how some animals become one ...

Among them, the evolutionary record holders are the insects, thanks to their ability ... To the naked eye, this green immigrant leaf weevil (Polydrusus formosus) appears to have a green cuticle.

Carnivorous caterpillars are extremely unusual. They make up about 0.13% of the world's moth and butterfly species, but the bone collector, in particular, is especially rare — after more than ...

Thorny stick males and females (Heteropteryx dilatata) and the giant leaf insect (Phyllium giganteum) come from Malaysia as well. There are also blue and purple grasshoppers (Titanacris albipes) from ...