Fruitflies evolve number sense
US and Canadian researchers have evolved a population of fruitflies that...
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Resistant bed-bugs ‘from tropics’
New results suggest that insecticide use in the tropics is to...
A rare he-she butterfly is born in London’s NHM
A half-male, half-female butterfly has hatched at London’s Natural History Museum....
Scientists to sequence thousands of insect genomes
Thousands of insects are being lined up to have their genomes...
The Earliest Touchdown
Three hundred million years ago, a flying insect skidded to a...
Parasite Invasion Caught on Camera
For the first time, the tiny malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, has...
Sleepy Bees Lose Their Rhythm
Sleep deprived and having trouble communicating? You aren’t alone. Drowsy honey...
Rethinking Brain Evolution in Insects
As surprising at it may seem, wasps, bees, and even ants...
Maggots Are Covered With Eyes
Fruitfly larvae typically spend their short existence head first in a...
Aberrant appendages
Having a second pair of hands might seem like an advantage...
Pinning the tail on the histone
Nearly 60 years ago, Pamela Lewis, a geneticist at the California...
Bees join hunt for serial killers
The way bumblebees search for food could help detectives hunt down...