Insect miniaturisation represents a remarkable evolutionary strategy whereby species evolve significantly reduced body sizes while maintaining—and often innovating—complex anatomical and functional ...

Climate change is threatening the survival of plants and animals around the globe as temperatures rise and habitats change. The word “adaptation” is used in many ways by climate scientists, but it has ...

Disease-carrying insects are no longer confined to the tropics or to a short summer season. From mosquitoes and ticks to the so-called kissing bug, a growing body of research shows that these vectors ...

The silverleaf whitefly is a major crop pest in the tropics and subtropics. After studying its genome, an INRAE researcher and a CNRS researcher identified 49 plant genes transferred to the insect’s ...

Night vision is ultimately about extracting information from a noisy visual input. Several species of nocturnal insects exhibit complex visually guided behaviour in conditions where most animals are ...

Insect life-cycle polymorphism : introduction / S. Masaki and W. Wipking -- Diversity and integration of life-cycle controls in insects / H.V. Danks -- Seasonal plasticity and life-cycle adaptations ...

Ants, often seen as summer pests, showcase their incredible teamwork during winter. As the cold sets in, they retreat deep ...

Understanding the evolution of insect mating behavior is essential for explaining how early insects adapted to life on land.

Hundreds of millions of years ago, microbes and plants might have given insects an evolutionary advantage by passing genes to them through horizontal gene transfer. Researchers now report that more ...

Insects thrive in incredibly diverse and challenging environments. While we now know that nutrient-sensing pathways, ...

Hester Weaving receives funding from a BBSRC studentship. Animals can only endure temperatures within a given range. The upper and lower temperatures of this range are called its critical thermal ...