Insects such as bees are crucial pollinators responsible for maintaining biodiversity and food security and have long been a challenge for both existing large-scale tracking methods and ...

While the prospect of fewer mosquitoes buzzing around might be compelling, insects play a crucial role in maintaining our ecosystems and supporting agriculture. Widespread use of insecticides has been ...

Insects are fragile, soft-bodied animals whose remains are difficult to preserve. Wings are often fossilized, but insect bodies, if present, are usually bits and pieces of the original prehistoric ...

This Scientific Reports Collection welcomes original research on Insect Behaviour. Narrative review articles are also welcomed, to our sister journal Scientific Reviews. For further information, ...

The intricate world of insect encounters represents a sophisticated biological interface where human vulnerability meets evolutionary survival mechanisms. Understanding these interactions requires a ...

The tell-tale signs that autumn is here are clear to us; the days are getting shorter and the temperature is decreasing. We take this as a sign to pull out our winter woollies and think about turning ...

Two-hundred-fifty million years ago, an insect got hungry for a midnight snack. It chewed through the wide leaf of a now-extinct gigantopterid plant, sowing rows of rounded punctures. The holes were ...

Turner was the first scientist to prove certain insects could remember, learn and feel. Courtesy of Charles I. Abramson, CC BY-ND On a crisp autumn morning in 1908, an elegantly dressed African ...

A bush cricket nymph grooming its feet. Source: Ross Piper, with permission. Although I've spent many years studying various aspects of social behavior and the cognitive and emotional lives of mammals ...

Hairworms grow inside insects by absorbing nutrients directly through their skin before manipulating their hosts’ behavior.