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There’s a lot of irrational fear of insects among humans, but there are some that can be lethal.

The New School anthropologist explains how using language about insects in reference to people can lead to violent acts.

Different species have their different tricks for getting by. Human beings are smart, quick-moving and numerous. We’re also pretty large, as mammals go. Sloths, on the other hand, take a […]

People tend to think of insects as having very rigid and well-developed social organization. During the Cold War, insect colonies were considered examples for how communist social systems should work.

Some men find videos of women crushing insects a turn-on, which the professor thinks is probably connected to their size, sound and texture.

Researchers have found that bees see the world nearly five times as quickly as humans do, helping them to navigate through bushes and find food.

The New School University anthropologist thinks insects are “astonishingly beautiful,” both individually and en masse.

People project their fears, desires, and yearnings onto insects, and many of our ideas about society and social organization have been worked out on them.

An amber deposit found in Ethiopia includes the fossilized remains of Cretaceous era ants, spiders, wasps, and bacteria, and is providing new information about how those species lived.

Scientists have established common bloodsucking insect the leech as a model for a study of reproductive behavior, with some twisting and turning results.

Plants are getting the ultimate revenge on the insects which traditionally feed off of them – by luring them into death traps and feasting on their flesh!

In an effort to curb the spread of dengue fever, scientists are breeding a genetically altered strain of mosquito, the insects which typically carry the disease, to counteract its effects.

Nothing says ‘I love you’ like a dozen chocolates made from the milk of hormone-and-antibiotic-injected cows and pesticide-sprayed cocoa beans grown on rainforest land which was shorn bare for maximum […]

Deadly scorpion venom is being used to create new eco-friendly pesticides as some types of venom are harmful only to insects and unlikely to harm larger creatures.

Rather than eggs, which can sometimes be in short supply, researchers have found that tobacco plants can be used to incubate diseases before they are killed and turned into vaccines.

Scientists are planning on recruiting a tiny species of wasp, nicknamed “voodoo wasps”, in the war on agricultural pests and as part of a wider effort to boost food production.

Sexually deceptive orchids that give off the odor of female insects trick lustful males into carrying off pollen.

No, it’s not a scene from the 1990 film Arachnophobia. And, yes the killer spiders are coming. But only if you live in Sidney, Australia which has been invaded by funnel-web spiders.

A rare species of fungus-farming ants have given up sex altogether, reproducing asexually in female-only colonies. But can asexual species’ go the distance?

To boil down the philosophy behind today’s burgeoning biomimicry field: mother nature knows best. Biomimicry subscribers believe that nature knows (far better than do we technology-obsessed humans) how to get […]

Scientists believe that plants like the tomato may have discreet methods to trap small invertebrates for nutrition.

Honeybee researchers have discovered that the insects release a deadly odor that shortens the lifespan of their family members – usually their sisters.

Richard Dawkins is perhaps the world’s preeminent voice in one of our weightiest debates—‘how did we get here?’ So, how does the spearhead of modern atheism feel we are doing […]

First off, yes, it’s entirely possible that we’ve watched too many science-fiction movies, like I, Robot and the Matrix. But a variety of new scientific innovations, particularly in the world […]

Will aliens look like the people next door? I hope not.

Often when we hear people arguing about the point of sex, it is defenders of sex education who fight moralist crusaders that want to save it for marriage and procreation. […]

Using the Definition of the Domain of Morality as a sort of logical compass, Conservatism is argued to be “going against nature.”