A curious summer encounter with rogue ants turns into a humorous journey through science, myth, and the mysterious habits of ...

What can a tiny wasp with a rather gruesome parasitic life cycle teach us about evolution, behavior and human developmental ...

Summertime. Spaniels pant, cones are crunched and the distant sneezes of hay fever victims ricochet through the home counties ...

We provide a comprehensive re-examination of the early medieval cocoons unearthed during archaeological excavations in the ...

Insects possess a remarkable ability to develop innate immune memory, and the mechanisms underlying this process are becoming a central topic in innate immunity research.

A new food allergy diagnostic test addresses many of the drawbacks of the current gold standard oral food challenge by only ...

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some ...

The report, published by Zoological Survey of India, which functions under the ministry of environment, forest, and climate ...

The study has been published in the European Journal of Taxonomy and describes four previously unknown species of parasitoid wasps belonging to the genus, Idris Förster (Hymenoptera Scelionidae) ...

"Its sting causes painful, and in some cases severe, reactions in both humans and animals." Scientists issue warning after ...

Discovery pushes back origin of Ophiocordyceps fungi by 30 million years, suggesting fungi evolved by shifting to new hosts.

Defining the Order. This vast assemblage of insects is second only to Coleoptera (Beetles) in the number of described species. Of the 6,000–7,000 new species of insects described annually, Hymenoptera ...