Scale insects’ fascinating natural history may ... Like many pests, they use sharp mouthparts to pierce the plant’s outer layer and suck sap and other fluids. One little aphid won’t do ...

Erica explains, 'The true flies group, called Diptera, has taken its basic body plan - three pairs of legs, a pair of wings, a pair of halteres [modified hind wings used for balance during flight] and ...

Coupled with the ubiquity of reports from newspapers to social media, this can make it look like it is a bumper year for the insects. Not all adult horseflies bite - only the females have mouthparts ...

In just a handful of years, cricket-killing parasitic flies have evolved hearing that’s more sensitive to their prey’s new, covert love songs, researchers report February 20 in Current Biology.