This video highlights insects with behaviors and traits that stand out even among specialists. Each example challenges common assumptions about how insects function. The footage focuses on adaptation ...

Insects usually get overlooked, but a few species go so far off the biological script that it’s hard not to be curious. Some have eyes perched on stalks, legs used as display tools, or bodies so ...

Cockroaches tend to unsettle people for obvious reasons, though their biology is often stranger than their appearance. One ...

Here’s what compound eyes really do — and why flies see you in slow motion. In this episode of Big Ideas, Niba explores how insects actually see the world — from the structure of ommatidia to motion ...

(via Be Smart) Imagine the scale of raindrops if you were the size of a small bird. Or mosquito. Flying through a drizzle should be deadly! Like flying through falling cars and boulders. And yet it’s ...

(KRON) — Wet and rainy winter weather has contributed to a bug boom in the East Bay. The Alameda County Mosquito Abatement District said it received many calls from local residents reporting swarms of ...