Does spit really help with a mosquito bite? And onion with a bee sting? An expert gives answers on how to respond to common insect attacks. Andrea Warnecke/dpa It could be such a wonderful summer's ...

This image highlights the whitish cuticular coating present on the ant Ac. echinatior. (Credit: T.R.S., in a study published by Nature Communications, via Courthouse News) PARIS (AFP) — A well-known ...

It’s Halloween every day for the bone collector caterpillar. The moth larva decorates its drag-along dwelling with scavenged body parts from dead insects. This ghastly getup may allow the creatures to ...

A study by researchers from Sweden and Hungary shows that white, painted stripes on the body protect skin from insect bites. It is the first time researchers have successfully shown that body-painting ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We integrate field data and phylogenetic comparative analyses to investigate causes of body size evolution and stasis in an old insect order: ...