Relationship patterns prove that flightless stick insects can overcome vast distances across geographical obstacles. The only plausible explanation for this is that the eggs of gravid females, when ...

Known for exceptional mimicry, stick insects have evolved a range of egg-laying techniques to maximize egg survival while maintaining their disguise – including dropping eggs to the ground, skewering ...

Insects vary in the life stage that survives the winter. It may be as an adult, caterpillar/nymph, cocoon or as eggs. This ...

Stuck in the ground, plants have a challenge when it comes to spreading their seeds. But the greenery has developed some surprisingly sneaky ways to get around their immobility—prickly seeds that ...

The fossils were found in northeastern China. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Insects that lived 160 million years ago wore ...

California wine industry leaders are warning of a "serious threat" following the discovery that eggs of an invasive insect species were recently shipped to the Golden State. The California Association ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — An invasive insect is returning to Ohio. Officials are asking Ohioans to keep their eyes peeled for the spotted lanternfly, a pretty but destructive invasive insect. The ...

DEAR JOAN: I got my tomato cages out from behind my shed this morning and found these. They look like clusters of insect eggs. Any idea what they are? Carl Baeuerlen, Los Altos DEAR CARL: I thought ...

Kinship by itself can’t explain the vigilante justice of some ant, bee, and wasp workers, according to a new analysis of colony life. In a classic social-insect colony, laying eggs is the job of the ...

With an invasive insect species threatening plants, Pennsylvania agriculture officials have turned to man’s best friend for help. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s school of veterinary ...