For more than 60 years, evolutionary biologists have debated whether a unique genetic system found in ants, bees and wasps ...

A new study found Saxifraga candelabrum to be a carnivorous plant, proving true Charles Darwin’s hypothesis that some plants ...

By documenting the unique pain caused by dozens of insect stings, entomologist Justin O. Schmidt created a one-of-a-kind ...

A new, jungle-proof automated light trap for insect monitoring documented in Methods in Ecology and Evolution and Integrative ...

Scientists have discovered a remarkably well-preserved 100-million-year-old beetle fossil that provides a rare glimpse into ...

It’s been nearly 150 years since Charles Darwin’s death. Yet, as research out today shows, scientists are still proving some of his educated hunches right. Researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural ...

The author of “Bitter Honey” on the big lives and surprising stories of tiny creatures.

Ant parenting may have evolved from the same brain systems that once controlled hunger. Researchers found that two chemical ...

Some types of bees are famous for their complex social structures. Honeybees, for instance, live in colonies with thousands of members, where each insect focuses on a specific job, such as caring for ...

For years, scientists have believed one major reason insects are almost absent from the ocean is simple physics: their ...

The findings indicate that by the mid-Cretaceous period, roughly 100 million years ago, early firefly relatives had already ...