Find out when and why ants grow wings and swarm. Flying ants are known as alates. In the UK, particularly in urban areas, the winged insects you see are almost always the sexually mature queens and ...

Experts have issued a warning after a woman lost her hair following an insect bite. The 28-year-old, from Boston, ...

The various regulatory systems for approving pesticides in operation around the world are crude and flawed. This has long ...

The suspected thief jumped out of an upstairs window in order to escape the scene of another crime during a spree of ...

A BIZARRE rare “alien” fungus with “tentacles” and a smell like rotting flesh has been spotted growing in the UK. Two ...

Arthopleura was an arthropod - a group that includes modern-day insects, crabs and spiders. Study co-author Mickael Lheritier explained: "We discovered that it had the body of a millipede ...

The eight-toothed spruce bark beetle is typically found in mainland Europe and northern Asia. But since arriving in the UK in 2018 it has been spotted in Kent and Sussex, and now moved into ...

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So what are daddy long legs and how can you get rid of them? In the UK, the term "daddy long legs" typically refers to two ...

According to the team, the research offers insights into insect locomotion and micro-scale robot design. Flying insects’ wings are fragile yet essential for activities like evading predators ...

Let’s close with a speck of an insect that has taught us more about ourselves than any other organism on the planet. The common fruit fly has taught us more about ourselves than any other ...

They are nocturnal and can fly up to two miles when looking for a food source, and female beetles lay 50-140 eggs in their lifetime, which is typically four to nine months. First found in Hawaii ...