Encountering a swarm of airborne arthropods in and around your home can be unsettling. Don't panic! Here's what you need to know about flying ants.

Health agencies recommend wearing insect repellent and loose-fitting clothing to prevent bites from mosquitoes carrying the fast-spreading chikungunya virus -- not rubbing ants on your skin, as an ...

The first explorers in the 17th and 18th centuries, like Abel Tasman and James Cook, charted some of the Fijian islands but ...

A chain of weaver ants can easily outpull just about any other creature, pound for pound, making them one of the most formidable teams in the animal kingdom. Weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina), which ...

Vincetoxicum nakaianum tricks flies into pollinating it by imitating the smell of ants attacked by spiders. Ko Mochizuki ...

Researchers and Extension entomology specialists across the South work together to develop control strategies for pests such as ticks, mosquitoes, bed bugs and more. This includes fire ants, which are ...

The researchers even coined a word for it, xenoparity, meaning “foreign birth”. It pushes the boundaries of what we mean by ...