You’ve probably seen a hoverfly. It’s a small, bee-like insect that hovers over your flowers in summer. Though they look like ...

A flexible tongue, sensitive beak and teethlike cones in the mouth may have helped Archaeopteryx generate enough energy to fly.

When it comes to biodiversity, researchers and the public tend to focus on large-scale patterns. This overlooks a hidden but precious diversity: small, inconspicuous wasps, midges, flies, beetles and ...

These flies lay eggs on open wounds, and their larvae feed on live flesh. And a case was just stopped in a Florida quarantine ...

Since their larvae are dependent on the host’s body for their first phase of life, it behooves the wasp to improve conditions in the body in whatever way it can. For example, some parasitic wasps are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The rosy maple moth is a small insect common in North America.© Kim T. Stewart/Shutterstock.com The post Nature’s Candy: This ...

Butterflies get all the credit, but some moths are just as beautiful as their winged counterparts. Case in point: the Rosy Maple Moth, which looks like something straight from the Barbie movie! A ...

The life of the fig wasp is nature at its worst—from our human perspective, anyway. In order to lay their eggs, female fig wasps have to squeeze into the flowering body of a fig, losing their wings ...

The Tussock moth caterpillar can be found in a variety of colors, including white, yellow, orange, and brown. The photography accompanying this article features this yellow Tussock moth caterpillar on ...

Eating a blend of non-toxic corn and genetically modified toxic corn can result in corn earworm pests (Helicoverpa zea) developing longer, more narrow and more tapered wings – shaped like the wings of ...

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