For more than 60 years, evolutionary biologists have debated whether a unique genetic system found in ants, bees and wasps ...

Insects are strange, wondrous beings. Butterflies can see parts of the light spectrum that are invisible to human eyes and use these ultraviolet patterns to find their way to tasty plants. Moths use ...

The result was a sample of 5.5 million specimens, of which around 600,000 will ultimately have sections of their DNA ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “We have to get used to the idea of eating insects.” This proclamation came from, of ...