Turn on a light outside at night, and it won't be long before a bevy of insects start careening wildly around it, apparently drawn in "like a moth to a flame," as the saying goes. Now, in a series of ...

Mosquitoes are some of the fastest-flying insects. Flapping their wings more than 800 times a second, they achieve their speed because the muscles in their wings can flap faster than their nervous ...

A blowfly on lavender flowers. Flies are the unsung heroes of pollination. They visit flowers to stoke up on energy-rich nectar and protein-rich pollen and transport pollen from flower to flower in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Want to help us out? Take the survey: https://s.si.edu/3CLozXN Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: https://s.si.edu/3rnWsfq Bees and bats and birds all fly, bud did ...

Insects show a remarkable ability to adapt to a huge range of temperatures. This is even more impressive when you remember that they are cold-blooded and therefore at the mercy of external ...

Snow flies are able to survive and remain active in subzero temperatures, which is unusual for insects. New genomic studies have revealed that they use a combination of strategies, including a protein ...