“Insects Have Consciousness, Self-Awareness and Egos,” the headline read. Whether or not the consciences of professional bug slayers were burdened by this revelation, other people were alarme ...

Instead of relying on a heart, blood and lungs to distribute oxygen throughout their bodies, insects have hemolymph, a fluid that fills their entire body cavity and bathes their internal organs.

When Elya injected hemolymph from infected flies into uninfected ... Entomophthora muscae is not alone in its macabre ...

In natural and agricultural ecosystems, omnivorous insects are omnipresent. Whether they are 'true omnivores' that require both plant and prey resources to complete their life-cycle, 'herbivores ...

All insects belong to the phylum Arthropoda. But unlike other arthropods—like lobsters, spiders, or millipedes—insects have three pairs of jointed legs, segmented bodies, an exoskeleton ...

These cells release the insulin directly into the hemolymph—the fluid that fulfills the functions of blood in insects. Apart from this, however, the insulin system of the fly is very similar to ...

Despite spending nearly 90 per cent of our lives under a roof, we know next to nothing about all the life that lives with us — insects: the most successful creatures on earth. In The Great Wild ...