If “Bugs That Rule the World” were a typical documentary, its makers would have a found a couple of honeybees, interviewed them about their life’s work, hobbies, romances, political points of view and ...

When you want to learn about ecology, biodiversity, climate change or even humanity, you might start by popping open your favorite internet search engine. But thanks to entomology, some of the best ...

DNA analysis suggests that cities could have helped bed bugs to become early adopters of the pest lifestyle 1. Bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) first made the leap from bats to early humans around 250,000 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine, for a moment, that you’re a honeybee. In many ways, your world is small. Your four delicate wings, each less than a centimeter ...

A group of scientists this month published an article in a prominent medical journal urging the U.S. to classify Chagas disease - an unusual but potentially deadly disease caused by a parasite that ...