The intricate interplay between insects and their microbiomes has emerged as a pivotal area of research, revealing that microbial communities not only underpin host nutrition and metabolism but also ...

Insect life-cycle polymorphism : introduction / S. Masaki and W. Wipking -- Diversity and integration of life-cycle controls in insects / H.V. Danks -- Seasonal plasticity and life-cycle adaptations ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The word “adaptation” is used in many ways by climate scientists, but it has a very specific meaning to biologists: It refers to ...

In a new study published in Communications Biology, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and the University of Giessen show that the adaptation of antlions to their ...

For more than a hundred years, scientists have studied the strange partnership between ants and seeds. In this relationship, known as myrmecochory, ants are drawn to seeds that offer fatty, ...

Diving beetles have evolved a specialized way to breathe underwater using pockets of trapped air. New footage shows how these insects carry bubbles that function like miniature scuba tanks. The ...

Researchers show that the adaptation of antlions to their ecological niche has also changed their venom. They compared the venom system of antlion and closely related green lacewing larvae. Antlions ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Water striders are the only insect that live entirely on the ocean’s surface. By some estimates, insects make up 80 percent of ...

Costa Rica, a biodiversity hotspot, has been the site of a remarkable scientific discovery. Dr. Elena Vasquez, a biologist at the University of Costa Rica, has identified seven never-before-seen ...