A team of researchers from the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Xiao-Liang Wang and Yi-Jian Yao), summarized all the available information on the insect species associated with ...

Chinese scientists have published new research describing the olfactory mechanism of insects and how exposure to certain chemicals results in particular insect behaviors, providing ground-breaking ...

Chinese scientists have developed a new rice variety with genome-wide breeding chip technology which is likely to be the first disease and insect resistant high-yield rice in China.(Reuters) Chinese ...

A stick insect (C), declared the world's longest insect, pictured with other smaller ones at the Insect Museum of West China in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan province, in an image taken on June ...

The analysis of the roughly 3,000 pieces is still in its infant stage. But it is already evident that the results will be of major significance. The Baltic amber comes from the Baltic Sea region, ...

As Chicago and other cities confront the threat to certain trees from the Asian longhorned beetle, some officials here hope that another Chinese bug can be used to control a nasty weed. Complicating ...

Nobody likes being bitten by mosquitoes - certainly not by this one. An insect expert claimed to have caught the world's largest mosquito with an astonishing 11.15cm (4.4in) wing span - about 10 times ...

A team of researchers from the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Xiao-Liang Wang and Yi-Jian Yao), summarized all the available information on the insect species associated with ...

A newly discovered Chinese stick bug holds the distinction as the world's longest insect, the Chinese state media has reported. The stick insect, measuring 62.4 centimeters (24.57 inches), discovered ...

A bug over half a metre long discovered in southern China has been declared the world's longest insect, Chinese state media says. A stick insect measuring 62.4 centimetres found two years ago in the ...