Are these tiny insects the world’s most bone‑idle bugs?
If you’ve ever struggled with chores while your freeloading siblings looked on, you might relate to these tiny insects.
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Tiny beetle fossil reveals how insects greeted Earth’s earliest flowers
Preserved in amber, a tiny beetle has shed light on the moment the world first burst into bloom.
Zombie ants: meet the parasitic fungi that take control of living insects
Infected ants help the fungus to spread its spores and reproduce.
Insect protein: dish of the day for your environmentally friendly pet
Cats and dogs in the UK eat billions of tonnes of meat every year, but insect pet food could change this.
Where have all the wasps gone this summer?
And why you should let them share your picnic ham and jam.
Drug‑resistant germs found on flies in English hospitals – new study
Don’t let that fly land in your hospital room. It could be carrying dangerous strains of bacteria.
Insect aerobatics: how mantises control spin for targeted jumps
Notorious for their gruesome cannibalism, praying mantises have a hidden talent. Controlling the spin on their jumps allows juveniles to make precision landings, before their wings have developed.
My daily surveys suggest British earwigs are declining drastically
Cool autumns and dry springs could help earwig populations recover.
Scientists have accidentally found the oldest ever butterfly or moth fossils
Lepidoptera insects are at least 70m years older than we previously knew.
Where the UK’s wasps have gone and why they need your help
Scientists know why there aren’t as many wasps around this year - but we don’t have much data on what is happening long term.
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