Under glaring laboratory lights, a research assistant extends his forearm and carefully inverts a mesh-topped container onto ...

Long-loathed as itchy household pests, the blood-sucking insects have revealed a darker, more intriguing potential as Malaysian scientists have discovered they can be turned into unlikely ...

Bed bugs often spark itchy scares around the world, but Malaysian scientists have discovered how the creepy crawlies can be ...

Analysing the insects could reveal gender, eye colour, hair and skin colour, entomologist Abdul Hafiz Ab Majid told AFP.

New research suggests insects may experience emotion-like states, showing stress responses and even exhibiting pessimism or ...

A new mosquito species in Colorado is capable of carrying dengue, yellow fever and Zika, while kissing bugs can now carry parasites that cause Chagas disease.

The unwelcome return of the invasive Asian lady beetle is bad news for people hoping to avoid an indoor invasion.

His fossils, collected over a decade at a Jurassic site in New South Wales, have revealed a new species of non-biting midge.

The Ohio Department of Health has documented 50 cases of LaCrosse/California encephalitis (LACV) virus within the state ...

Back in 1948, when he was just a boy, Beattie was vacationing with his family in New South Wales when he came upon a shell ...

Amateur fossil hunter Robert Beattie has been searching for remnants of the past ever since he was a child. Now, some of his ...