The skin bumps are the body's reaction to the insect's saliva. While the bug is sucking blood, some of its secretions get mixed in. Anaphylaxis With Insect Bites: Very Rare A severe life-threatening ...

Feb. 13, 2025 — Male fruit flies don't just sing to their mates; they also use sound-cancelling wing-flicks to jockey with rivals. This new understanding of how male flies compete for female ...

Insects add to the overall environment in Aloft, but they can also help you with crafting. Whether you need insects to improve the health of an ecosystem or you’re foraging for honey, insects ...

The researchers focused on the rare males of Ramulus mikado, a stick insect species in Japan, where parthenogenesis is predominant. Their analysis of male reproductive behavior reveals new findings.

MIT scientists are designing robotic insects that could one day swarm out of mechanical hives and perform pollination at a rapid pace — ensuring fruits and vegetables are grown at an ...

The fourth section, by F. Silvestri, describes the Thysanura, including fifteen species of Lepisma and one of Japygus. Twelve of the species are new, and one of them represents a new genus.

Entomology is a branch of zoology concerned with the study of insects. The discipline can include the biology and control of insects, as well as their ecology and impact on animal, plant and human ...

Honey bee and bumble bee nests are not usually a problem and should be preserved when possible. Social wasps are a group of related insects belonging primarily to the family Vespidae (sometimes called ...

Since the turn of the 21st century, rapid advancements in phylogenomics have significantly deepened our understanding of the tree of life, particularly for ancient divergence. A recent letter to the ...