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Parasitic 'horror' wasp that bursts from a fly's abdomen like an 'Alien' xenomorph discovered in Mississippi backyardScientists accidentally discover new species of wasp that lays eggs inside living, adult fruit flies, which then burst from the hosts' abdomens while they're still alive.
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Kamikaze termites blow themselves up with 'explosive' backpacks — and scientists just figured out howKamikaze termites in French Guiana carry highly volatile toxic "rucksacks" that are ready to be deployed in an instant, when the termite needs to defend its colony.
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Panda ant: The wasps whose black and white females have giant stingers and parasitic babiesPanda ants are actually wasps masquerading as an adorable ant, with black and white females possessing stingers half as long as their entire bodies.
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Ants perform life saving operations — the only animal other than humans known to do soFlorida ants perform amputations and clean wounds to prevent the spread of infection, scientists discover.
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Butterflies cross Atlantic ocean on 2,600-mile non-stop flight never recorded in any insect beforePainted lady butterflies discovered in French Guiana — thousands of miles from their usual habitats — got there through a Herculean transoceanic flight.
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Scientists discovered the oldest termite mounds on Earth — and they're 34,000 years oldThe world's oldest termite mounds have been collecting carbon from the atmosphere for thousands of years.
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Cicada double brood event: What to expect as trillions of bugs emerge in Eastern USWhen and where will the double cicada brood emerge? Here's what to expect from this rare phenomenon, which occurs only once every 221 years.
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Mutant blue-eyed cicadas discovered outside Chicago during rare double brood eventMost of the periodical cicadas emerging across the eastern U.S. in this year's rare dual emergence event have blood-red eyes, but sightings of blue-eyed variants have recently been reported.
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Double cicada bloom 2024: Google Doodle celebrates once-in-221-year event with band of bugsThe "cicada-geddon" is the result of the co-emergence of Brood XIII and Brood XIX, with billions of bugs crawling out of the ground across parts of Eastern U.S.
