The email from Trip Lamb, biology professor at Eastern Carolina University, said, “As a velvet ant sting survivor, you may appreciate the attached.” The attachment was a scientific paper titled “The ...

Knowing your winged and stinging insects is pretty important for homeowners, both so they can better understand the biodiversity on their property and so that they know which insects pose danger to ...

Insects are the primary pollinators of most flowers and crops. Niklas_Weidner/500px via Getty Images Rachel Mallinger: A lot of different insects pollinate. Insects visit flowers for many purposes, ...

In the face of environmental challenges, one kind of ant gets better at growing food and an African wasp species may become more cooperative. Armed with headlamps and tweezers, American evolutionary ...

A driver and their dog were rescued early Friday morning after getting stuck in floodwaters. The city of Hillsboro officially opened its newest fire station Thursday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony in ...

There are nearly 1 million insect species that can be found across the globe, according to the Smithsonian. With this many creepy crawlers roaming around, there's a chance some can be in your backyard ...

Pheromone communication in social insects : sources and secretions / Johan Billen and E. David Morgan -- Cuticle and cuticular hydrocarbons of insects : structure, function, and biochemistry / Gary J.

Get a honey bee near a rose or a lavender and the insect will extend its strawlike tongue to search for nectar, pollinating the flower in the process. That’s, at least, how it works in clean ...

In the early 1990s, when I was a Ph.D. student at the Free University of Berlin modeling the evolution of bee color perception, I asked a botany professor for some advice about flower pigments. I ...