Like humans, insects possess sensory organs responsible for vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. For vision, insects ...

Detailed in a study published on October 16 in the journal Science, biologists collaborating across multiple universities in ...

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Researchers have discovered profound similarities and surprising differences between humans and insects in the production of the critical light-absorbing molecule of the retina, 11-cis-retinal, also ...

You may have recently read our nightmare bug-in-ear story by Katie Holley, a woman who rushed to the ER with a live roach in her ear, which crawled up in there while ...

One advantage of being an entomologist is that there's never a lack of material for small talk (as it were); with close to a million described insect species, there's an almost inexhaustible supply of ...