The estimate of 5.5 million species of insects is interesting. What’s even more remarkable is that because scientists have ...

Significant efforts are being made to maintain a clean and insect-free environment in the akharas and the expansive tent city, they added. A total of 110 state-of-the-art mist blowers and 107 mini ...

The sterile insect technique is an environmentally-friendly insect pest control method involving the mass-rearing and sterilization, using radiation, of a target pest, followed by the systematic ...

In natural and agricultural ecosystems, omnivorous insects are omnipresent. Whether they are 'true omnivores' that require both plant and prey resources to complete their life-cycle, 'herbivores ...

Researchers are pulling from video games, sports broadcasting, meteorology, and even missile guidance technology to better investigate how insects have mastered flight. Amanda was an associate editor ...

All insects belong to the phylum Arthropoda. But unlike other arthropods—like lobsters, spiders, or millipedes—insects have three pairs of jointed legs, segmented bodies, an exoskeleton ...