An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs, with a body like a Venus flytrap to seize and snatch its prey, ...

Discover nitisinone, a drug for rare diseases that could also combat mosquitoes and their transmission of malaria.

"One way to stop the spread of diseases transmitted by insects is to make the blood of animals and humans toxic," according ...

Insects do a lot more harm than ruining picnics. Some insects spread devastating diseases, while others cause staggering economic losses in agriculture. To control some of these pests, scientists are ...

Scientists have a radical new plan for controlling mosquito numbers and fighting malaria: lacing human blood with a drug that ...

Why it's awesome: This deadly, yellow centipede has evolved to live in the Movile Cave — a pitch black, sulfurous underground system untouched by sunlight for more than 5 million years.

Nitisinone, a medication typically prescribed for individuals with rare inherited diseases, has been shown to make human ...

THE return of the sunshine has brought with it an unwelcome pest as deadly processionary caterpillars have been spotted in ...

If you have hemlock trees on your property, the time to protect them from a deadly invasive insect is approaching.