One recent night David told me to come look at the deck door because there were two insects mating on it. It turned out that ...

"This book is published on the occasion of the Royal Entomological Society's International Symposium on 'The Evolution of Insect Mating Systems' in St. Andrews, September 4-6, 2013. All symposium ...

Stag beetles have their sumo matches. Female fireflies who murder their mates. These are some of our favorite mating behaviors among insects and arachnids. Stag beetles square off in a wrestling match ...

The matador bug’s flashy leg-waving isn’t a mating ritual but a predator deterrent, revealing a surprising defense strategy shared by multiple insect species and hinting at broader evolutionary ...

They undergo big body changes to become adults. An insect that does that is holometabolous. “Millions of years ago, ...

A lab study on crickets has revealed sex differences in how the insects direct their nutritional resources to increase ...

Spring in Australia has arrived like a celebration. Magpies are warbling in the morning, wildflowers are bursting open across ...

Tens of billions of noisy cicadas are set to pop out of the ground in the coming weeks in a rare synchronized event that last occurred 221 years ago. The winged insects are expected to appear across ...