Someone once told me that a ladybug landing on you brings good luck. So recently, after a trip to Cordova Park in Otley, Iowa, I was ecstatic when I returned home and noticed what appeared to be a ...

“I’d love to make Locust masks that they can sell at shows, so the audience would be filled with insect heads, but at least for now it’s too expensive to do as merchandise.” The band’s ...

Fossils of giant cicadas show how they developed improved flight abilities following the evolution of birds, most likely as a response to the pressure from predation. Insects were the first animals to ...

These predators are able to see a broad range of wavelengths, including ultraviolet light (Cronin and Bok, 2016). This creates intense evolutionary pressure for insects like leafhoppers to develop ...

He immediately began to draw connections to his research about the strange ways insects interact with their ... charge resulting from a swarm of desert locusts rivals that of clouds and electrical ...

giant cicadas exhibit similar morphologies and flight mechanisms. They represent an outstanding epitome of Mesozoic flying insects, exquisitely preserved with a vast array of morphological ...

Fossils reveal that prehistoric cicadas’ wings evolved to help them evade hungry predators with feathers and beaks, scientists say. By Jack Tamisiea Today, few critters are as abundant as cicadas.

Palaeontinidae couldn’t make a big noise like modern cicadas. But they were large, with a wingspan half a foot across. Despite their spooky size, something triggered these massive insects to adapt.

Here’s how it works. The rapid evolution of cicadas' flight ability may have been spurred by the emergence of predatory birds, new research suggests. These insects' bodies and wing shapes ...

But because firefly remains from this period can be difficult to come by since the insects’ softer bodies don’t preserve well in the fossil record, the evolution of the beetles and their ...

This way, katydids foul the male cicadas and lure them for predation. Scientists state that these katydids can imitate the sounds of many other insects, even those of insects they’ve never even ...

"Like many insects, the lady beetle starts seeking small crevices to gather in large numbers and begin diapause, the name for insect hibernation," she wrote in a blog post for the university.