Every spring and fall in Utah, clusters of Boxelder bugs start appearing on walls, crawling along window frames, and sneaking ...

Edited by Nancy Moran, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; received August 8, 2024; accepted November 6, 2024 ...

Three-hundred-million years ago, Earth was very different. The continents had coalesced into Pangea, which was dominated in its equatorial regions by vast coal-swamp forests. With high atmospheric ...

DENVER — For these insects, flight is all in the legs. Phantom crane flies float lazily on breezes, their six long legs splayed and wings held utterly still. Wind tunnel experiments are beginning to ...

The proclamation came from, of all people, an insect researcher: “We have to get used to the idea of eating insects.” Dutch entomologist Marcel Dicke pitched eating bugs in his 2010 TED talk as ...

Abstract: Wing flapping of insects can cause micro-Doppler patterns in the reflected signals. Here we study the feasibility of insect sensing from a joint waveform from a near-field continuous-wave ...

For Chris Perani, the most diminutive details—the kind that are virtually impossible to see with the naked eye—are an endless source of wonder. His ongoing series, Wings, focuses on the prismatic ...

They may be small, but many are exceptionally mighty – and insects are some of the most formidable predators on the planet, from those that sting, to those that work together to overpower their prey.