Brood X cicadas will emerge to a very different world

When Brood X cicadas emerge this summer, it will be to a world drastically altered from the one their ancestors knew.

Talia Ogliore-WUSTL • futurity
May 14, 2021 ~6 min

Wasps: why I love them, and why you should too

We value bees for the jobs they do for the environment and us – why is the same not true of wasps?

Seirian Sumner, Professor of Behavioural Ecology, UCL • conversation
April 29, 2021 ~25 min


Plant flower ‘billboards’ in your garden to help bugs in trouble

You can help declining insect populations by planting groups of the same kinds of flowers together, researchers say. They act like big ads for bug food.

Samantha Murray-Florida • futurity
April 26, 2021 ~4 min

To compare insect brains, make bug brain ‘soup’

Certain species of bees have a higher density of brain cells than even some species of birds, according to research with a new "bug brain soup" technique.

Daniel Stolte-Arizona • futurity
April 21, 2021 ~10 min

Baby bees love carbs, experiments show – here's why that matters

First ever feeding experiments reveal that solitary bees need to carb-load – and can be picky when it comes to dieting.

Elizabeth Duncan, Associate Professor of Zoology, University of Leeds • conversation
April 20, 2021 ~7 min

Feeding experiments reveal baby bees love carbs – here's why that matters

First ever feeding experiments reveal that solitary bees need to carb-load – and can be picky when it comes to dieting.

Elizabeth Duncan, Associate Professor of Zoology, University of Leeds • conversation
April 20, 2021 ~7 min

Making beetles pee themselves to death may be new pest control

Instead of using pesticides that damage the environment and human health to control beetles, new research points to getting the little pests to pee.

Michael Skov Jensen-Copenhagen • futurity
April 19, 2021 ~6 min

New firefly species turns up in Singapore swamp forest

Researchers have discovered a new species of firefly in Singapore's last remaining freshwater swamp forest.

National University of Singapore • futurity
April 6, 2021 ~5 min


Vapor condenser copies beetle trick to harvest water

A new vapor condenser consumes no electricity and—like the darkling beetle—lowers its temperature to harvest condensed water.

Cory Nealon-Buffalo • futurity
April 2, 2021 ~7 min

This cannibal shows how selfishness evolves

It's surprisingly easy to turn a common type of moth larvae into a bunch of cannibals. And doing that confirms an evolutionary prediction.

Jade Boyd-Rice • futurity
March 30, 2021 ~9 min

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