DENVER — For these insects, flight is all in the legs. Phantom crane flies float lazily on breezes, their six long legs splayed and wings held utterly still. Wind tunnel experiments are beginning to ...

How do insects perceive mechanical stress? This is a question of interest in many different fields, including comparative morphology, neurobiology and robotics. A team led by Dr. Brian Saltin of the ...

Summer is the season for flies, which belong to an insect group that scientists call Diptera. Many fly species are more active when the weather is warmer, and populations can boom thanks to the ...

Around 100 trillion insects fly in the skies above the USA on a summer's day, according to estimates by researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) and ...

Entomologist Torsten Dikow, a leading expert on assassin flies, is working to connect a global community of researchers through the democratization of insect science Emma Saaty Torsten Dikow overlooks ...

You are standing in a forest in the middle of winter and the temperature has dropped below zero. The ground is covered in snow and the trees and bushes are naked. The insects that normally fly or ...