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Diapause is one of the most remarkable adaptive strategies evolved by insects to survive predictable periods of environmental adversity. By integrating ...

These stinging picnic pests don’t deserve our enmity and fear – they are impressive architects that belong to highly ...

The generally accepted figure for the number of insect species on the planet is about six million. Or at least that was the ...

A new estimate of insect species globally finds that there may be 8 million to 14 million more species than people thought, ...

For 40 years, we thought Earth was home to six million insect species. Turns out, it could be three times that.

New calculations suggest that the insect species inhabiting our planet may be double or triple previous estimates.

In a series of publications spanning the 1910s and 1920s, anglers attempted to crack the puzzle of fishing — what makes a ...

Tiny 3D-printed diving suits allow cockroaches to walk underwater for up to 3 hours with no ill effects, which could enable a ...

If someone asked you to name the best places for wildlife viewing in Illinois, Moraine Hills State Park in McHenry probably ...

For 24 hours, scientists, naturalists and community volunteers traded classrooms for forests and wetlands, documenting as ...

Tree swallows at a Great Lakes bird observatory are shrinking, a troubling finding that University of Michigan researchers ...