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Find out everything there is to know about insects and stay updated on the latest insect research with the comprehensive articles, interactive features and insect pictures at LiveScience.com. Learn more about these fascinating species as scientists continue to make amazing discoveries about insects.
Like paying a prostitute with counterfeit bills...
10 creepy-crawlies are out to snag the top spot.
The candidates for the 2011 Ugly Bug Contest have been narrowed down to these 10 contenders.
Lynn Kimsey, who discovered the new species known as the "warrior wasp," and several hundred others, answers the 10 ScienceLives questions.
But do they "hold the door" for their dates?
Fruit releases compounds that get male flies in the mood to copulate, so their lady friends lay eggs in hospitable rotting fruit.
When male crickets offer large food gifts to their mates, females are more likely to seek mates out.
Female beetles sleep around when they come from inbred populations, using their wily ways to use the best sperm from the best mates.
A rare hybridization event between the Eastern tiger swallowtail and the Canadian tiger swallowtail gave rise to the ancestor that started the Appalachian tiger swallowtail lineage.
Insect viruses first evolved around 310 million years ago — among the oldest age estimate for any virus group — and may have played a role in the diversification of their insect hosts.
Photographer Miroslaw Swietek captures insects covered in early-morning dew.
Photographer Miroslew Swietek's images of dew-covered insects in the early morning.
When Benzinger Wines acquired their 85-acre vineyard, they used pesticides and pulled up weeds. But the soil – and the wine – lost its “oomph.” Switching to biodynamic growing practices has brought the land alive again.
There are more than 2,000 species of treehoppers (Heteroptera, Membracidae), with various fascinating "helmets."
Fungi, spiders and bugs also top the list.
Leech, bacteria, spiders and bugs top the list.
In a story of strange bedfellows, beetles bunk with frogs during the day, eat them at night.
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