Gone is the eight-hour workday. Everyone is stretching to do all they need to do, but however resourceful we are, some insects’ adaptations make humans look like slackers. The repletes save the food ...

Disease-carrying insects are no longer confined to the tropics or to a short summer season. From mosquitoes and ticks to the ...

We investigated adaptation of the armored scale insect Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (Targioni-Tozzetti) to individual mulberry trees (Morus alba L.) in Maryland, USA. We tested local adaptation by ...

Researchers have discovered two genes underlying the evolution of a water striding insect fan used for locomotion, which they say were essential for survival in fast-flowing stream environments. Their ...

Several insects with special adaptations are shown in the program, The Living Edens "Namib." Each of these insects have special adaptations which makes them well suited to life in this harsh ...

Hester Weaving receives funding from a BBSRC studentship. Animals can only endure temperatures within a given range. The upper and lower temperatures of this range are called its critical thermal ...