Experts working for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) have identified dozens of “nuisance insects” which will thrive. Many are native in the UK, including common species ...

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An 'annoying' alien-like insect is set to emerge from a 17-year slumber and wreak havoc across multiple US states this year, scientists have warned. Billions of 'Brood XIV' cicadas are currently ...

An alien-like fossil of an insect trapped in amber from the time of the dinosaurs does not fit into any of the 31 orders of insects that scientists know about – so it's been put in another one all by ...

They may be pretty to look at, but these colourful bugs are attacking garden plants across Britain. An army of exotic invaders is devouring leaves and stripping stems bare up and down the country.

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A terrifying 'alien-like' creature flexing its hairy tentacles has been captured in horrifying video footage. The monster insect, filmed in Indonesia, is seen wiggling its huge orange body up and down ...

A respected scientist has claimed that that life exists on Mars in the form of bizarre insect-like organisms resembling bees. Professor Emeritus William Romoser, an entomologist from Ohio University, ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover may be digging for evidence of alien life deep below the surface of Mars. But one US entomologist believes the evidence has been staring us in the face all along. Ohio ...

A tiny insect has gained viral fame after it has convinced hundreds of thousands of viewers that it is actually an alien. The tiny black-coloured insect is uncannily reminiscent of the Bug aliens from ...