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

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

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

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 ...