insects

Beware of insect repellants. In addition to killing annoying mosquitoes, they can harm our health, according to a new study published in the journal BioMed Central Biology.

Few organisms except humans have colonized the planet as effectively as ants. Now, photographers Heidi and Hans-Jürgen Koch show us the spectacular secret life of these social insects.

In the world of bugs - if we exclude arachnids - there is no more powerful poison than that produced by the red harvester ants of the genus Pogonomyrmex. Specifically, the venom of the Pogonomyrmex maricopa is comparable to that of the cobra.

Among the most damaging insects for plants , aphids or aphids occupy a prominent place. Once installed in the plant, they feed on its...

At 35 to 40 cm long, the giant stick insect , or Tirachoidea cantoni , is the longest insect known to date. The body...

"There is no certainty that DNA exists in insects preserved in amber" He was born in Manchester (Connecticut, USA) 41 years ago and has taught entomology at Columbia and Cornell universities. He began to study amber after observing insects from a site in the Dominican Republic. Since 1988 he has been an adjunct professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at New York University and head of the Entomology department at the American Museum of Natural History. 2 years ago he discovered a unique specimen in amber: an insectivorous mammal that lived more than 20 million years ago.

Of the 5 million species of insects that populate the planet, none have colonized the oceans. Recently, the physiologist Simon Maddrell, from the University...

The Spanish fly or oil beetle, Lytta vesicatoria , is a coleopteran insect from which an aphrodisiac with the same name is extracted. Medieval...