Insects

These ghastly meals provide male butterflies with chemicals that they use to produce mating pheromones, which female butterflies find irresistible.

Meet "Attenborough's Beauty," an ancient beetle that was so exceptionally well-preserved you can still see the colorful patterns on its wing case.

This is the first time ever that an animal has been documented performing this bizarre trick. The researchers who discovered it think studying it could lead to advancements in robotics.

Video and computer modeling shows how fire ants create bridge extensions from their enormous rafts, made of tightly packed ants numbering in the tens of thousands.

The worker bees' ability to clone themselves can be as destabilizing to the hives of other species as it is to their own.

This is the first time that third-party matchmaking has been observed in non-humans.

A number of now-emerging Brood X cicadas will fall victim to a zombifying fungus called Massospora cicadina.

Brood X cicadas, also known as the Great Eastern Brood, are ready for their closeup.

Male parasitic wasps emerge from their hosts a few hours earlier than females, making the ability to sniff females out all the more important.

A two-pronged, pheromone-producing gland in female dragon mantises only pops up when they are ready to mate.

The researchers say that brain plasticity like this may not just be a trick of the ants. Other animals could do it too, and we may only just be noticing.

Most predators are stymied by the cicadas' 17-year life spans, but the insects are still vulnerable to being zombified.

A rare Australian bee has been spotted for the first time since 1923. It was previously believed to be extinct.

Beetles that lived during the late Bronze Age in a bog look as though they died yesterday.

Male springbok mantises that attack females can sometimes escape cannibalism.

High-speed cameras show that flies' modified hind wings help with their speedy takeoffs.

Asian honey bees defend their hives by attaching animal dung around the doorways, a behavior that was previously unknown in bees.

There were nearly 200 new queens poised to start their own colonies in a 'murder hornet' nest destroyed by Washington state entomologists.