Some insects smell like cilantro, others like bleach or rotting flesh, and a few can blister skin or trigger asthma with a single spray. The chemistry behind these odors reveals a surprisingly ...

“The gas inside an air sac is not pressurized (it is roughly the same as the atmospheric pressure at the water’s surface),” ...

Insects live in nearly every habitat, and it’s estimated that there are currently 10 quintillion insects on the globe. So far ...

Recent estimates have come to the consensus that our planet hosts roughly six million species. But new research reveals that those counts may be drastically underestimated ...

Traditionally, insect research has involved destructive methods, killing the insects so they could be studied more closely. Now a team, led by Senior Researcher Emeritus Gábor L. Lövei from the ...

Insects are everywhere: from fruit flies to ants to bees to cockroaches, they are seemingly inescapable. The paper eliminates a popular theory as to why insects can’t live in oceans—namely that ...

A study in Costa Rica has big implications for extinction and conservation.

More than twenty years after those early studies attracted attention, scientists continue investigating how insects breathe, ...

Some of the fiercest beasts of prey in your garden are on your side. They’re predatory insects that protect your plants by ...

A worldwide compilation of insect abundance studies shows the number of land-dwelling insects is in decline. On average, there is a global decrease of 0.92 percent per year, which translates to ...

Not every yellow-and-black insect is a wasp. Many harmless species have evolved to mimic the appearance of stinging wasps as ...