Festo, a German robotics company, creates robots inspired by animals. Their bionic butterflies fly with grace using tiny ...

A swarm of mosquitoes can quickly turn an enjoyable time outdoors into an itchy, unpleasant experience. While spraying for ...

Wildlife experts in North Wales have warned that swarms of flying ants are this summer set to be amongst the “biggest in recent memory”. It follows ideal breeding conditions for the insects, with warm ...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms are increasingly being used to conduct different military missions. However, highly varying environmental factors affect the inter-UAV minimum safe distance ...

I hiked up along a plunging river through dusty brown vegetation, whose seed pods rattled like a snake’s tail as I brushed ...

Monarch butterflies gather at their wintering colony in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Michoacán, Mexico. “So for over a decade now, the colonies haven’t really changed in size.

It’s hard not to be dazzled by the bright yellow butterflies fluttering around the Inland Northwest these days. Not only are they striking in color, but they’re among the biggest butterfly species in ...

Butterfly optimization algorithm (BOA) is an excellent swarm intelligence algorithm that simulates the foraging behavior of butterfly populations, but it has such defects as poor accuracy, easy to ...