How did insect wings originate? This is a question that represents an unsolved mystery of insect evolution. Despite many years of research, it is still not entirely clear from which body structure ...

Results from a recently published study suggest that efforts to reduce biological hitchhiking on live plant imports, often referred to as 'biosecurity,' are working. However, more than a century of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fossils from Australia’s Talbragar beds reveal the oldest known midges in the Southern Hemisphere. (CREDIT: Gondwana Research) ...

A stunning array of insects catch the light behind a glass pane where they hover on pegs above yellowed tags. The sheen of their fibrous wings and the careful posing of their articulated limbs make ...

Step outside on any day of the year, at any time of day, and something small, very small, with translucent wings or several legs or a thorax or compound eyes or antennae is probably, strike that, most ...

Paleontologists, including researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN), have described the oldest insect larval feeding tunnels inside leaves, also known as leaf mines, along with ...

If you're happy about reading this story in English instead of French, thank a mosquito. Specifically, thank Aedes aegypti, also known as yellow fever mosquitos. In 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte was trying ...

BugFest returns with hands-on insect fun at the Natural History Museum of Utah. BugFest returns to the Natural History Museum of Utah with live bug encounters, hands-on exhibits, and family-friendly ...

Deep under the Jurassic rock beds of New South Wales, scientists discovered fossilized insects that push back the history of one of the world’s most hardy families of flies. These fragile traces, ...