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Things that go buzz in the night – our global study found there really are more insects out after dark
Mark Wong, The University of Western Australia and Raphael Didham, The University of Western Australia Have you ever…
Insects are spreading a devastating plant disease in Italy – Britain must keep it out
Olive trees that have died after becoming infected with Xylella fastidiosa. Fabio Michele Capelli/Shutterstock Alan Stewart, University of…
Some Cicadas Take 17 Years to “Wake Up.” Here’s What’s Taking Them So Long.
You may have seen news a couple of years back about a massive swarm of cicadas suddenly appearing…
How Did Insects Manage to Learn to Fly?
Hundreds of millions of years ago, invertebrates like insects were among the first to venture out of the…
How we created the first map of an insect brain – and what it means for our understanding of the human brain
Tomatito/Shutterstock Michael Winding, The Francis Crick Institute Imagine trying to navigate an unfamiliar city but you’ve lost your…
Insects are vanishing worldwide – now it’s making it harder to grow food
Catherine_P/Shutterstock Stuart Reynolds, University of Bath Over the past 20 years a steady trickle of scientific papers has…
Arthropleura: The Biggest Millipede Ever (So Far)
The vast expanse of Earth’s natural history has seen the planet play host to fantastic creatures like dinosaurs…
This Australian grasshopper gave up sex 250,000 years ago and it’s doing fine
Michael Kearney, Author provided Michael Kearney, The University of Melbourne and Ary Hoffmann, The University of Melbourne Most…
This mosquito species from Papua New Guinea was lost for 90 years – until a photographer snapped a picture of it in Australia
Tracking mosquitoes in our backyards, such as Aedes notoscriptus, helps authorities work out future health risks. Cameron Webb…
Five facts about the gruesome beauty of solitary wasps
Malloscelis taiwanianus, a spider wasp, found in Sichuan, China. Shutterstock Seirian Sumner, UCL Most people recognise a wasp…