When the larvae of the primitive social insect, a type of paper wasp, slips into the quiet pupal stage, she doesn't know if she'll arise a worker or gyne (future queen). Now, researchers are shedding ...

Many insect species respond to danger by producing chemical alarm signals, or alarm pheromones, to inform others. In a recent study, investigators found that their alarm may be even be context ...

TEMPE, Ariz. – When the larvae of the primitive social insect Polistes metricus, a paper wasp, slips into the quiet pupal stage, she doesn’t know if she’ll arise a worker or gyne (future queen) – ...

In the dark abyss of the world's deepest known cave lurks a newfound species of primitive eyeless insect, one that researchers are calling the deepest land animal ever found. Subscribe to read this ...

UNDER this title Mr. H. Womersley, entomologist at the South Australian Museum, in Adelaide, contributes a useful handbook (dated 1939) on the lower insects, or Apterygota, of the country named.

Millions of years ago, bees evolved from meat-munching wasps, but little is known about their transition from carnivorous insect to flower-seeking pollen-eater. A newly discovered fossilized bee, ...

The dragonfly considered the most primitive in the world lives in Australia and Tasmania, and was believed to be extinct four decades ago. But it is far from being so. A Spanish researcher has ...