Cryptochrome (CRY) biology in insects represents a rapidly evolving field at the nexus of chronobiology, neurobiology, and quantum biophysics. Historically ...
Tarantulas may have the reasoning to recall how to navigate places they’ve already been, a new study published in Ecology and ...
It’s a mobile app that provides real-time, hyperlocal risk information about disease-carrying insects and arachnids. The app ...
For humans, humidity often makes us cranky, sweaty, and downright uncomfortable. For sweat bees, humidity changes their ...
Typically, engineers perform surgery to implant electrodes into the insects’ antennae. The antennae contain sensors for smell ...
Late summer evenings in much of North America carry a particular kind of insistence. It comes not from anything visible, but ...
Parasitic wasps of the genus Trichogramma are among the smallest insects in the world—yet they play an important role in ...
After witnessing the interactions in an Arizona desert, a Smithsonian researcher suggests that the little ants picked off ...
Tarantulas may combine learning-based navigation and cue-based orientation to adjust their movement and hunting behaviour ...
A close-up camera captures a metallic-green dragonfly perched on a rock, actively feeding on its prey. This moment reveals the precision and efficiency of one of nature’s most skilled insect hunters, ...
A collaborative research group has developed a bio-inspired robotic system based on insect behavior which can locate odor sources both indoors and outdoors with consistent accuracy, even if one of its ...