A new species of moth has recently been discovered and was named after Donald Trump just days before his presidental inauguration. The new moth, Neopalpa donald...
The relentless upwards growth of plants is driven by the need for light. A plant's mission is simple: outgrow the nearby competitors and win the light, sometime...
Bees and their allies are not only beautiful and fascinating creatures, they are essential natural assets too. By pollinating our flowers and crops, they are cr...
The old saying may tell us that it’s a man's world, but this might not be the case for the green lacewing. A new study has revealed that some green lacewings (M...
In the insect world it is common to find females laying their eggs and promptly leaving them to develop and hatch on their own. No parenting awards for them, pe...
For a small ant in a big desert, life can be tricky. No less so when it comes to finding the way home. So when desert ants leave their nests, they use a suite o...
One of the most endangered insects in Japan has been rediscovered after thirty years.
The red-winged grasshopper, Celes akitanus, was known to inhabit semi-n...
All ants on deck! Ants have shown something akin to veteran boatmen qualities when surviving flooding on their raft of interlinked bodies. In subsequent floods,...
Human inventiveness is quite incredible. From the wheel to the automotive, the alphabet to the printing press, the pin-hole camera to the flat screen television...
Every autumn, monarch butterflies embark on a quite unbelievable 2000 mile migration from Canada and the USA to the toasty surroundings of central Mexico. It is...
