Not everything that spins a web is a spider. If you find delicate webs that are intricately spun underneath a log in the ...

Microclimates—as opposed to large-scale regional or even global scale macroclimate models—may hold the key to offsetting the ...

Scientists have found that jewel wasps possess the ability to slow their biological rate of aging. Researchers studying jewel ...

Animals like bats, whales and insects have long used acoustic signals for communication and navigation. Now, an international ...

Majestic hemlocks towering on dunes and along streams in Ottawa County may soon be a thing of the past if a tiny insect cannot be controlled. The hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA), a sesame seed-sized ...

1. No-see-ums are small black bugs that can inflict painful bites. No-see-ums get their name from the fact that these insects are so small, they often go unnoticed.

"Insects are just the perfect laboratory for exploring handling fluids at the micro-scale," says Anne Staples, a fluid dynamicist at Virginia Tech who studies the mechanics of insect respiration ...