Spotted lanternfly season is back in Pennsylvania. The polka-dotted, gray-and-red-winged adult insects make their appearance ...

If the flying menaces hanging out around your houseplants and seedlings are getting on your last nerve, here’s how you get ...

The Xenomorphs from the Alien movie franchise were inspired by parasitoid wasps. That doesn't surprise Scott Egan, an evolutionary biologist at Rice University. He tells his students that if you can ...

As the days grow shorter, many animals prepare for the approaching winter by suspending reproduction. Insects, for example, accumulate energy stores while halting ovarian development through a process ...

Clad in all kinds of ornate and beautiful colors, the butterfly is a winged insect that flies from flower to flower, consuming the rich, sugary nectar inside. There are nearly 20,000 species of ...

The box tree moth is a non-native, invasive insect that has the potential to cause major damage to one of the most popular ...

It’s pretty rare, but just like us mammals, some flies actually give live birth. One of them is a parasitic fly species Ormia ...

Adult June bugs are called chafers because they eat leaves and flowers of trees and shrubs — they have gained a reputation for ruining gardens and being a nuisance especially in groups, according to ...

There’s a good reason most North American birds nest in late spring or early summer: The weather and water are warmer, prey abounds, and insects and fruits are plentiful enough for rearing hungry ...

Stressed plants emit ultrasounds. These sounds, imperceptible to the human ear, are a valuable source of information for certain butterflies. A new study reveals how these insects use this hidden ...