A tiny worm turns static electricity into a powerful weapon, launching itself through the air to catch flying prey.
An array of animals and plants survive winter in the subnivium, nature’s igloo. But climate change is threatening this hidden ...
The United States is leaving some of the world’s oldest and most influential scientific networks involved in biodiversity ...
From sticky “flypaper” to lightning-fast suction, carnivorous plants have evolved various ingenious traps for finding the ...
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Living in clouds: Meet the bird that eats, sleeps and lives almost entirely in the sky for 10 months
A remarkable bird spends up to 10 months airborne, eating, sleeping, and even resting mid-flight, pushing biological limits ...
UKCEH is delighted to announce a three-year partnership with the Aberdeen Group Charitable Trust to tackle the worldwide decline in insect biodiversity through Project INSPIRE.
Tap a small beetle on a table and it may suddenly collapse, tuck in its legs, and lie perfectly still. Many insects do this.
Cockroaches are usually treated as simple creatures that react without pause, driven by instinct rather than experience. New ...
Microplastics have entered Antarctica’s soil ecosystem, subtly affecting its only native insect and revealing how far human ...
A small reddish insect is on the march and Chinese space technology could halt the pest’s path of destruction.
Summer is the season for flies, which belong to an insect group that scientists call Diptera. Many fly species are more ...
Researchers working in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest found that mosquitoes captured deep inside nature reserves showed a striking ...
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