Assassin bugs (also known as ambush bugs or thread-legged bugs) are one of nature's stealthiest hunters, known for their precision strikes and ability to subdue prey with incredible efficiency.

Get ready to explore one of Africa's most notorious insects: the tsetse fly. These tiny flies may not look like much, but they play a major role in spreading sleeping sickness, aka human African ...

She has found that when bumblebees drink nectar containing caffeine, they respond as if it contains more sugar than it actually does. The spike of caffeine makes them more likely to remember those ...

Hoping to attract a flurry of butterflies to your garden to bring good luck? Knowing what types of food different insects eat ...

Yet, the changing human world creates unprecedented challenges: proboscis monkeys are forced to venture uncomfortably ... and ...

The mushroom body (MB) is the center for associative learning in insects. In Drosophila ... Flies were tracked for proboscis extension (PE) activity with the Animal Part Tracker (Kabra et al., 2022).

There's personality, appearance, seduction, all manner of physical and social cues. Mosquitoes are much more blunt. Mating occurs for a few seconds in midair. And all it takes to woo a male is the ...

Scientists are exploring a novel approach to combat mosquito-borne diseases like dengue by targeting their mating process. By genetically altering male mosquitoes, researchers have successfully ...

Scientists believe they have found a quirky way to fight mosquito-spread diseases such as dengue, yellow fever and Zika - by turning male insects deaf so they struggle to mate and breed.

A team of researchers from the University of California says deafening male insects makes them unable to mate and reproduce. The findings, which were published in the Proceedings of the National ...

This study presents valuable insights into the organization of second-order circuits for gustatory neurons, particularly how they integrate opposing taste inputs and the metabolic states that regulate ...