When pill bugs roll into a tiny ball, the act looks far simpler than it actually is. Known as conglobation, a pill bugs’ ...

S. lativentris beetles evade detection — and attack — by grooming the ants to harvest chemicals called cuticular hydrocarbons ...

Bed bugs are a nuisance that often infect travelers in hotel rooms or used furniture that's brought into a new home. For thousands of years, bed bugs have enjoyed living off their human hosts, and it ...

DNA analysis suggests that cities could have helped bed bugs to become early adopters of the pest lifestyle 1. Bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) first made the leap from bats to early humans around 250,000 ...

Time travel with insects -- The buggy planet -- Rise of the arthropods -- The Cambrian period, 541-485 million years ago, and the Ordovician period, 485-444 million years ago -- Silurian landfall -- ...

Insects come in all different shapes and sizes, a result of thousands of years of evolution. Beetles are extremely diverse and are the largest order within the Insecta class. With over 350,000 ...

The matador bug’s flamboyant leg-waving puzzled scientists for years, with early guesses pointing to courtship. But experiments revealed the waving is a defense tactic against predators. Related ...