LiveScience Topic:
Insect
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.
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Versatile diet of Argentine ants helps them thrive, spread in new environment.
If your pet tracks in some unwanted guests, a vacuum will get rid of them.
The giant fossil claw of the largest creepy-crawly found yet has just been uncovered.
Ants footprints hold chemicals that tranquilize food-producing aphids.
Cycads use odors to attract and repel insects to trick them into pollinating.
When a firefly flashes it can attract something good or something deadly.
Scientists are looking into why some bugs are able to switch genders.
Female beetles mate to quench their thirst, literally.
A bottleneck in air pipes is the reason bugs today don't grow to sci-fi size.
Only about 10 percent of them are known, scientists estimate.
Scientists consider only 1 percent of all cockroach species as pests.
Weighing less and being more agile can help score a mate.
Water's surface tension and tiny grooves on legs of mosquitoes keep pests afloat.
Tropical butterflies have evolved to fend off a deadly parasite.
Greenland was once carpeted in lush forests, a new study shows.
Insects eat native plants but let weeds grow.
Some beetles are refined escargot feeders.
The preference proves useful, too.
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