Camouflage is a widely studied antipredator technique that we thought we understood. A rainforest insect, however, is ...

This video highlights insects with behaviors and traits that stand out even among specialists. Each example challenges common assumptions about how insects function. The footage focuses on adaptation ...

Insect life-cycle polymorphism : introduction / S. Masaki and W. Wipking -- Diversity and integration of life-cycle controls in insects / H.V. Danks -- Seasonal plasticity and life-cycle adaptations ...

In a new study published in Communications Biology, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and the University of Giessen show that the adaptation of antlions to their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The word “adaptation” is used in many ways by climate scientists, but it has a very specific meaning to biologists: It refers to ...

When you want to learn about ecology, biodiversity, climate change or even humanity, you might start by popping open your favorite internet search engine. But thanks to entomology, some of the best ...

For more than a hundred years, scientists have studied the strange partnership between ants and seeds. In this relationship, known as myrmecochory, ants are drawn to seeds that offer fatty, ...

Researchers have discovered that plants benefit from a greater variety of interactions with pollinators and herbivores. Plants that are pollinated by insects and have to defend themselves against ...

Insect-driven tree mortality is rising across Europe, according to an international study led by the Czech University of Life Sciences with participation of WSL. Conifers are hit harder, broadleaf ...