That farmer can snap a picture, use a smartphone or computer to feed the photo into a web-based application called InsectNet ...

Many insects are life-history omnivores, which means that they act as herbivores during one stage of their life, then as predators during another. For example, most parasitoid wasps feed upon ...

which colored some of the insects a dark shade of ebony. The disguise worked to deter their feathered predators, which, unable to tell the difference, steered clear of both the toxic stonefly and ...

In the insect world things are often not what they seem, especially if you're a hungry predator. For 250 million years, insects have survived because they often appear to be something other than ...