Your first instinct when you spot a buzzing insect nearby is often to swat at it, but not every bug is a foe. Some are friends and worth a second look. Consider the hover fly, a tiny but mighty bee ...

Although millions upon millions of living creatures fly, feed and reproduce in the air, this habitat has hardly been ...

A: The short answer is that these small black bugs in the house that aren’t fruit flies could be a number of different types of insects, from gnats to ants to flies. While gnat bugs are technically a ...

According to Torsten Dikow, curator in the entomology department at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, assassin flies are “aggressive, visual predators that perch on vegetation and ...

Insect pupae hiss like snakes for defense. A Kobe University team now reveals the mechanisms, opening the door to further ...

In the future, tiny flying robots could be deployed to aid in the search for survivors trapped beneath the rubble after a ...

Some species of spider can grab prey out of the air at night apparently without seeing it, and now we know how. An analysis of one such spider shows it uses its legs to pick up the sound of flying ...

Pictured is a cicada that recently emerged in Oktibbeha County as part of a 13-year periodical brood. The rare emergence not only brought more insects out of the ground, but also additional noise as ...