This moth supplements its diet with bird tears
It probably gets its fix of salt from those tears.
When predator turns prey
In a bizarre interaction between a frog and an insect, it’s the frog that ends up as food.
Caterpillar vs. Beetle: Who wins?
Watch this caterpillar fling its beetle attacker through the air.
Fungus creates zombie bugs with a short afterlife
The infected bugs seek out flowers, stick their heads in and bite for their life. Then, hours after dying, their wings spring into action.
Female dragonflies drop dead to avoid males
It’s their way of rejecting unrequited love.
Wasp turns host into a self-sacrificing zombie
Meet the head-borer wasp that eats its way out into the world through another wasp’s head.
For these bees, being the firstborn girl is a curse
By giving a brood’s firstborn female smaller portions and a low-protein diet, a mother bee can turn the offspring into a nursemaid for her younger siblings.
Newfound bugs have strange body proportions
They have slender bodies, swollen legs, eyes that run down to the mouth and “tails” that are longer than themselves.
Queenless ant colony trapped in nuclear bunker forever
With new recruits that keep raining in from up above, this unique society has no queen, and the ants work in pitch darkness with no obvious access to food
Poo matters: Earwig young survive on siblings’ poo
The odd feeding behaviour may even help keep the young insects together in a primitive form of social living.
Secrets of the insect architects
Insects are skilled architects that build homes of all kinds, from basements to tree houses and even skyscrapers.
Velvet ants are almost invincible
These colourful, hairy insects are beautiful to look at, but they have so many defences that virtually nothing eats them.
How Ant-Man ants got this Cheerio home
Study explains how wandering ants guide a group of food gatherers back to the nest.
Electricity from silk cocoons?
Researchers in India say they have developed a prototype of an energy-harvesting device from the cocoons of a domesticated species of silk moth.
Serrated egg-laying organ gives wasps an edge
Evolution has gifted them with a long, flexible and slender egg-laying organ.
