entomology

On the conservative side, there are some 2.5 million ants for every person on Earth

Who would win in a fight, you or 2.5 million ants?

By Cassidy Ward | 

2 months ago

Do spiders have nightmares? New evidence suggests they sleep and dream

With a little firefly in the corner of their web to push back the dark.

By Cassidy Ward | 

3 months ago

Cyborg locusts can detect cancer by smelling your breath

They know more about you than you know about yourself.

By Cassidy Ward | 

3 months ago

Put away your swatter, bees and other insects probably feel pain

To bee or not to bee... bees might suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune just like us.

By Cassidy Ward | 

3 months ago

A genetic key could make mosquitos forever young and never reproduce

It's basically a mosquito puberty blocker and could save human lives.

By Cassidy Ward | 

5 months ago

Acoustic camouflage! Moths’ anti-echolocation wings are inspiring soundproof wallpaper

Evolution beats engineering every time.

By Cassidy Ward | 

5 months ago

Termites crossed the ocean at least 40 times over the last 50 million years

Termites are the ultimate invertebrate stowaways.

By Cassidy Ward | 

6 months ago

Mind-blowing bug-brain tech can now sense drones from far away

This is proof we don't give insects enough credit.

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

8 months ago

Grasshoppers have mouths kind of like…ours?

Evolution does creepy things.

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

8 months ago

Pheromone traps turn murder hornets into murdered hornets

Good thing we're not so easily manipulated, right? RIGHT?

By Cassidy Ward | 

8 months ago