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...
Gaze stabilisation is an almost ubiquitous animal behaviour, one that is required to see the world clearly and without blur. Stomatopods, however, only fix thei...
If you can get away with it, should you cheat to reap the benefits? Perhaps not, if you are a paper wasp. New research has found that dishonest wasps are punish...
Insect pollinators, flitting from flower to flower in the sunshine, are for many people evocative of lazy, hazy summer days. But this tranquil scene masks a tro...
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...
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...
An arms race between bats and moths has been raging for over 65 million years. As bats become more adept at catching their prey, embattled moths have to counter...
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,...
