For 15 years, Kuhlow, a 51-year-old former Stony Brook microbiology researcher, has been logging observations of leaf and bud appearances — in his own garden, or farther afield on a hike — into a ...

When we think of dangerous animals, our minds often jump to lions, sharks, or venomous snakes. But here’s the twist– some of ...

A municipal sewer treatment plant is a finely tuned biological system filled with microscopic bugs that “eat” and break down wastewater components. But that system can get overwhelmed when outflow ...

Skin flakes are hard to digest. It’s like eating hair, or feathers. So dust mites have powerful digestive enzymes to break the skin down. Those enzymes turn up in dust mite poop. And let’s just say ...

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley have created the world’s smallest flying robot that can be controlled without any wires. This tiny insect-like machine is less than 1 centimeter ...

Researchers from the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA) have released 2,500 parasitic wasps into an orchard in the Huon ...

Scientists hope hungry black weevils imported from Louisiana can help tackle South Africa's invasive water plant problem.

Across the region, insect conservation is under-represented in research, funding and public discourse. Read more at ...

Some of them are downright strange, like the weird bug that wears a face "mask" on its butt or the "kamikaze" insects with ...