As night falls and the city bustle dies down, another kind of life creeps up on its citizens: Cockroaches lurk beneath cabinets and bed bugs crawl out of mattresses. These unwelcome guests have spread ...

When pill bugs roll into a tiny ball, the act looks far simpler than it actually is. Known as conglobation, a pill bugs’ “ball” involves a full-body engineering trick designed to protect them from ...

Researchers traced termite DNA back to cockroach ancestors and found genetic loss played a key role in building social ...

The Venus flytrap Dionaea muscipula is the most sophisticated of the carnivorous plants. Its traps snap shut in a fraction of a second, imprisoning prey in a cage of teeth that line the edges of the ...

A species of remipede known from the Caicos Islands. The photograph was taken by a member of a multinational team looking for rare species. Remipedes are crustaceans that are close relatives to ...

Termites did not evolve complex societies by adding new genetic features. Instead, scientists found that they became more ...

An 82-year-old man from Australia with a lifelong passion for fossils but no formal training in paleontology has helped scientists challenge a long-standing idea about how a tiny but widespread group ...

Despite differences in shape and size all insects are characterized by a body organization that includes three units: a head, thorax and abdomen (panels A-B). In contrast all spiders (and other ...

Treehopper insects are some of nature’s most peculiar creations. With spiny helmets, ball-like bumps, and trident-shaped structures growing from their backs, they’ve fascinated scientists for decades.