This release is available in German. Unseen and unheard, insects are all around us. And with more than a million different species, each one perfectly adapted to its environment, no other form of ...

Social learning and use of social information in general have been understood to be largely restricted to vertebrates. Among insects, social learning or processes akin to it have been reported only in ...

We've all noticed how much insects love to fly around lights. But why? Many answers have been proposed; some have suggested that insects have a direct attraction to the light itself; others have said ...

Ioannis Pisokas has received funding from the University of Edinburgh. Ajay Narendra receives funding from Australian Research Council, Hermon Slade Foundation. Ayse Yilmaz-Heusinger does not work for ...

In this three-part series of Insect Worlds, Steve Backshall explores the insects and their close relatives, the arachnids and crustaceans. The series explores the intricate and at times bizarre ...

NATURE lovers have the chance to learn about insects at an event in Chatelherault Country Park on Sunday, June 22. Entitled Ladybirds, Lacewings and Lepidoptera, the National Insect Week event will ...

You'd think bees would be all about metaphorically stopping and smelling the roses — but it turns out they prefer to waste no time when working out where to find food. This is the conclusion of a ...

For decades, the idea that insects have feelings was considered a heretical joke – but as the evidence piles up, scientists are rapidly reconsidering. One balmy autumn day in 2014, David Reynolds ...

It's already well known that animals such as birds learn to avoid eating poisonous insects that could potentially kill them. Now, researchers at the University of Bristol have found that birds can ...