An international research team on Thursday unveiled what it called the most comprehensive insect family tree ever devised, using genetic data to trace insect origins back to nearly half a billion ...

A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that examining an insect's "family tree" might help predict a "cousin" insect's level of tolerance to pollutants, and therefore ...

While prehistoric insects encased in amber certainly are fascinating, they usually don't look all that different from today's insects. A newly discovered one, however, is so bizarre that it has been ...

Creating a family tree that dates back more than 400 million years and details the evolution of the most diverse group of animals on the planet is no easy feat, but one ambitious group of scientists ...

Annapolis, MD; July 24, 2018 -- Grasshoppers are one of the most ubiquitous groups of insects in the world, found everywhere from grasslands to tropical rainforests to isolated mountain ranges to ...

A family was banned from boarding their flight because airline staff were suspicious of insect bites on their son’s leg. Expat Jonathan Arthur, 34, and his wife Xun Sun, 35, were flying from Shanghai ...

As much fun as outdoor summer adventures are for the whole family, no matter where you live, it's likely the time when bugs are most active - and hungry. And nothing ruins a vacation, a beach day, or ...

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