Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. But just as we are starting to understand insect senses, something is shifting in the ...

The Royal Entomological Society’s Photography Competition highlights the wonder and diversity of the six-legged creatures that crawl, swim and fly across the planet Carlyn Kranking - Associate Web ...

Termite queens form an essential part of the colony by sustaining them. They lay over 30,000 eggs a day, and without them, ...

Dara Ojo was once afraid of spiders, particularly the biting, venomous kind. How times have changed. Not only is the photographer willing to get up very close and personal with arachnids of all ...

An “accidental finding” lead researchers to the rediscovery of a cricket species not seen in more than 150 years, according to a new study. Street View Image from ...

The more we study sentience among nonhuman animals (animals) the more species are added to the sentience arena—the biodiversity of sentience is forever growing—and ethical questions about pain and ...

In the forests around Kanchanaburi, Thailand, a university student discovered a new species on a bush. Nopparuj Lamaikul via Unsplash When a college student set out on a campus in Thailand under the ...

Smart homes decked out with motion sensors, automated lights, and precision thermostats are often considered must-haves in futuristic dwellings. But could they pave the way forward for beehives, too?

AMES, Iowa – Less than a year into her position as the program assistant in charge of the traveling Insect Zoo at Iowa State, Ginny Morgal is putting her stamp on the program. Morgal spends several ...