The Natural History Museum of Denmark houses a unique collection of 70,000 pieces of amber from various time periods.

Standing in a tropical forest at night, you might hear what sounds like a small bird calling from high in the canopy. Listen ...

Understanding the evolution of insect mating behavior is essential for explaining how early insects adapted to life on land.

Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...

Common European spittlebugs secretly spread a deadly bacterium, Xylella fastidiosa, threatening over 600 plant species.

Most people have done it. You see something small and wiggly on a plant, your brain says “bug = bad,” and your hand is ...

In a remote corner of Peru’s central Amazon, a small, ancient pollinator has quietly rewritten legal history. Native ...

Through pollination and feeding on all parts of plants, insects influence which plants thrive, which struggle, and even ...

Insects are strange, wondrous beings. Butterflies can see parts of the light spectrum that are invisible to human eyes and use these ultraviolet patterns to find their way to tasty plants. Moths use ...

As NASA plans for long-term human missions beyond Earth, one question keeps resurfacing: how do you sustain life in places ...