Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Big black beetles with long antennae might be skittering around your yard or patio this time of year, but fear not: These are just ...

Spiders and insects are often considered pests. Some people would rather see the creepy-crawly creatures dead than buzzing ...

"Lots of things fly at night," says Harlan Gough, a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Nightfall can set the stage for an acrobatic high-stakes drama in the air — a swirl of ...

Remote-controlled cockroaches are thing of the past, practically considered peasantry by the remote-controlled insect community, if such a thing were to exist. Well, not really, but why settle for ...

Scientists have created a flying robot inspired by how a rhinoceros beetle flaps its wings to take off. The concept is based on how some birds, bats, and other insects tuck their wings against their ...

The beetles don’t fly well, Linz said, and are easy to keep in a laboratory. In an initial study, the team used master switches in the beetles’ genome to manipulate which segments of the body had ...