The Last of Us Cordyceps Infection Explained! Erik Voss interviews an actual scientist to break down the science of The Last of Us! In HBOs The Last of Us, the mutated strain of the Cordyceps fungus ...

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they evolved flashy petals. Now we know how they may have done it: not with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The Lord Howe stick insect (Dryococelus australis) was ...

It takes Mandela Fernández-Grandon 15 minutes to train a hoverfly, a harmless wasp look-alike. The entomologist at the University of Greenwich, UK, immobilises each tiny insect in a cocoon-like holder ...

Insect populations are in steep decline, which could endanger the food supply. But there are things we can do to reverse the trend. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Bumblebees can process the duration of flashes of light and use the information to decide where to look for food, a new study has found. This is the first evidence of such an ability in insects, ...

As predictable as cool fall nights and Chiefs sweatshirts around Kansas City, I know my window screens will be covered with tiny bugs. These black specks show up each autumn, congregating on my ...

Asian lady beetles, not ladybugs, are the insects that typically infest homes during colder months. Asian lady beetles can be identified by a white "M" or "W" marking on their heads and a more orange ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them. By Jason P. Dinh Watch your back, DEET. There’s a new ...

Bugs and scientists have long been oddball allies in the effort to understand decomposing bodies, but there's a catch. When a person or animal dies, insects can detect that death faster than humans ...

Austin Baker and his team at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County are leading an ambitious effort to DNA-barcode every insect species in California as part of the statewide CalATBI ...