Nature doesn't hold back when it comes to insects. While most people imagine bugs as brown, creepy, or bland, there's a whole world of creatures that look like they were painted by a surrealist. Here ...

A microscope reveals the hidden wing structure behind the Madagascar sunset moth’s incredible rainbow colors, showing why ...

All of us were taught in our elementary school science class about monarch butterflies and their caterpillar stage that only eats milkweed leaves. Other insects also eat milkweeds, but they are hardly ...

Welcome to National Moth Week! (July 23-31) As an insect enthusiast, I encourage everyone to take a closer look at the vast diversity of moths that fill our world. Butterflies and moths belong to the ...

It’s taken more than a decade, but scientists have cracked the case of these colorful insects found thousands of miles away from home. Painted lady butterflies (Vanessa cardui, shown resting on a bush ...

Watching insects live their weird lives is endlessly amusing. It used to be only within the grasp of production crews with big budgets to capture such vivid detail. Nowadays, all you need is a Canon ...

Biologists have identified fundamental mechanisms in visual information processing in fruit flies. The exquisite capability of insects to detect color and to distinguish for instance flowers is ...

On a humid night on Barro Colorado Island in Panama, a research team collecting insects beneath a lamp spotted something that stopped them mid-routine: a katydid glowing vivid hot pink. The insect, an ...

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