Formosan and Asian termites are almost entirely restricted to tropical climates, but the invasive insects have consistently arrived to newly habitable regions due to warming temperatures caused by ...

Learn more about termite evolution and how shedding key genes from their cockroach ancestors helped them build more complex ...

Walking sharks are small reef-dwelling sharks that use their fins to “walk” along the seafloor. Learn more about this fascinating movement.

And then there’s Sceptobius lativentris. Parker’s research revealed that the adult beetles turn off their ability to produce ...

Ant colonies are well-defended fortresses. The social insects quickly sniff out most intruders and kill them to protect their ...

When cold weather sets in, it’s tempting to assume pest problems go into hibernation along with the garden. Unfortunately, ...

One of the weirdest things about pea aphids is their reproductive cycle. Most animals reproduce in one of two ways: asexually or sexually. But the pea aphid does not stick to just one type of ...

Skunks mate from February to March in California, according to A-Z Animals. Skunks are polygamous, and male skunks travel up to 5 miles during mating season looking for love with as many potential ...

Across the American West, outbreaks of locusts, grasshoppers, and crickets cost ranchers about $1.2 billion every year. The research suggests that building soil quality instead of relying on ...

The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service shifted its 100 million per week sterile fly dispersal efforts to stop ...

For most of their history, moths navigated the night by the moon and stars. Today, that natural map is being drowned out by ...

When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists expected the surrounding land to remain uninhabitable for ...