The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles released a refreshed design of Virginia driver’s licenses and ID cards today featuring Virginia’s official insect and state flower? Any guesses as to what ...

About 70% of the species on Earth are insects. They are fundamental components of most ecosystems: they comprise half of the ...

A collaborative research group has developed a bio-inspired robotic system based on insect behavior which can locate odor ...

Different insects flap their wings in different manners. Understanding the variations between these modes of flight may help scientists design better and more efficient flying robots in the future.

In the early 1950s biologists at Brooklyn College were using an electron microscope to pursue a lead that the leafhopper, a common insect that is about the size of a rice grain and named after one of ...

Seafood, insect, and mushroom industries generate chitin waste. New processing converts it into high-purity chitosan for ...

Empire of the Ants is really effective at making you feel like a very tiny being within a much larger world. As a new strategy adventure game set in the insect kingdom, you command an army of ants to ...

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