These stinging insects have very different behaviors.

As the fall season progresses, it makes me think of all the insects and plants getting ready to survive winter.

This is the largest study to date that combines the genomes and fossils of bats. Bats appeared after a mass extinction that led to ...

In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers compiled data from 103 bat genomes and 44 fossils to rewrite the bat ...

As the climate warms, beetles, butterflies, moths and other insects have been moving up mountainsides, often following the cooler conditions they are adapted to. Up there, the air is also low in ...

Insect "detectives" have discovered two new types of large stick insects, showing scientists are still uncovering new species ...

Every survey method has an opinion about what counts as an insect. A trap does not sample the air. It samples whatever that particular trap is good at catching, and nothing else is ever in the data.

The two fields in southern Minnesota looked abandoned at first glance. Rows of solar panels stood over what had been cropland, and between the rows, seed had just gone into bare, worked over soil.

As parts of the West Midlands baked in warmer temperatures this summer, species once considered unusual in the region, such as hummingbird hawk moths, ivy bees and the wasp spider have been spotted in ...

DNA extracted from specimens in five museums, including the Natural History Museum, London, has been used to study the history of the moss carder bumblebee, which is threatened with extinction in the ...

Colorado bees, moths, bats and other pollinators are getting new state-level protection after Governor Jared Polis signed an executive order Wednesday directing state agencies to shore up habitat on ...