Some plants do more than just look good—they help keep annoying pests away. With natural compounds that deter insects, these plants offer a chemical-free way to protect your home and garden. Here are ...

Discover how the Antarctic midge, Antarctica's only native insect, survives extreme cold through unique adaptations.

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Genetic analysis suggests a form of mosquito found in urban subway systems evolved in the Middle East thousands of years ago ...

InsectNet -- which is backed by a dataset of 12 million insect images, including many collected by citizen-scientists -- provides identification and predictions for more than 2,500 insect species at ...

How far would leaf-eating insects go to dine on their favorite food? Perhaps the other side of the world, according to ...

To trace where the insects might have originated, evolutionary biologist Yuki Haba, now at Columbia University in New York City, evolutionary genomicist Lindy McBride at Princeton University ...

The results have been published in the journal Biology Letters. Conclusion: All in all, the insects and mammals studied appear to have coped well with the cold wave- with one exception in the case ...

Alexander the Great is one of the most famous generals of the ancient world. By the age of 32 he had conquered a massive empire that stretched from the Balkans to modern-day Pakistan. We know ...