"When a dragonfly hunts, it hovers perfectly still and positions itself between its prey and a shadow cast behind it by, say, ...

While the great cicada emergence of 2024 brought a historic convergence of cicada broods, what will happen in 2025?

And don’t forget that birds molt so on top of the nesting material, the feathers shed could clog gutters even more. We don’t need to tell you how annoying mosquitoes are. We’ve all experienced the ...

Once the nymphs find somewhere to stop on their climbs, they molt and the adult cicada will emerge, Cooley said. The males ...

MIAMI — Mosquitoes might be the bane of a summer barbecue in Kendall or a stroll on Miami Beach, but researchers in Florida are now also looking at the insects’ more obscure targets — and ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) on Monday launched the “Alas-Kwatro Kontra Mosquito” drive on in a bid to address the rising number of dengue cases nationwide.

It has 30 opsins, the universal photoreceptor molecule that resides in the visual systems of the animal kingdom. I look back with my three opsins and two blue corneas. At the fishpond where I am ...

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