One of the largest and strongest beetles in the world hardly seems the best inspiration for a delicate flying microbot. But using slow-motion cameras to capture the critters in flight, an ...

New evidence suggests there is some truth to anecdotes about today’s car windscreens being covered in fewer dead insects than in the past. A UK citizen science survey has found the number of flying ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Trillions of insects embark, largely unnoticed, on epic journeys every year across mountain ranges, deserts and seas, and it is only now, as their numbers suffer huge declines, that scientists are tra ...

Big black beetles with long antennae might be skittering around your yard or patio this time of year, but fear not: These are just the relatively harmless palo verde beetles, also known as palo verde ...