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Insect

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Scientists Add Unlikely New Member to World’s Carnivorous Plants
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Scientists Add Unlikely New Member to World’s Carnivorous Plants

  • August 5, 2026
More than 150 years after Charles Darwin first wondered whether certain sticky-leaved Saxifraga plants might be secretly carnivorous,…
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Reda Ismaieel et al. examined the olfactory capabilities of the wings of the tobacco hawkmoth (Manduca sexta). Image credit: Reda Ismaieel et al., doi: 10.1242/jeb.252047.
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Moths Can Smell With Their Wings, Researchers Say

  • July 30, 2026
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology have found that moth wings are equipped with odor-detecting…
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Japanese Fossil Bee Fills Two-Million-Year Gap in Honeybee History
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Japanese Fossil Bee Fills Two-Million-Year Gap in Honeybee History

  • July 27, 2026
Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a new fossil honeybee species that fills a long-standing gap in the…
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Analysis of Camponotus nicobarensis venom. Image credit: Koch et al., doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aed4078.
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Formicine Ants Produce Hidden Arsenal of Venom Peptides, Study Finds

  • May 18, 2026
Entomologists have discovered that carpenter ants — the largest genus within the stingless ant subfamily Formicinae — produce…
SScience
Scientists Discover Bizarre 100-Million-Year-Old Insect With Giant Claws
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Scientists Discover Bizarre 100-Million-Year-Old Insect With Giant Claws

  • May 18, 2026
Preserved in amber: the newly discovered bug species Carcinonepa libererrantes. Credit: Haug Scientists have discovered a previously unknown…
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Intense hot pink morph of an adult female Arota festae photographed on March 27, 2025, on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Image credit: Zeke W. Rowe.
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Tropical Bush Cricket’s Hot-Pink Phase May Be Nature’s Perfect Disguise

  • March 16, 2026
Entomologists in Panama have observed a leaf-masquerading katydid species that begins life bright pink before turning green days…
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Renderings of an exemplary Antscan specimen: subsoldier of Eciton hamatum. Image credit: Katzke et al., doi: 10.1038/s41592-026-03005-0.
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Entomologists Create Digital Library of Global Ant Diversity

  • March 6, 2026
Using powerful X-ray beams, automated robotics and AI, entomologists have created interactive digital images representing 212 genera and…
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Fossil ant colony preserved in a piece of Baltic amber from Lithuania. Image credit: José de la Fuente & Agustín Estrada-Peña, doi: 10.3389/fevo.2026.1724595.
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Fossil Amber Preserves Ecological Interactions between Ancient Ants and Other Organisms

  • February 27, 2026
Fossils trapped in amber aren’t just beautiful, they may preserve real ecological interactions, including possible parasitism or commensal…
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Larva of Cretosabethes primaevus. Image credit: Amaral et al., doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2025.09.011.
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99-Million-Year-Old Amber Preserves Earliest-Known Mosquito Larva

  • October 28, 2025
The new fossil, encased in a piece of amber from the Kachin region of Myanmar, represents both the…
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This Bug Waves at You in the Forest. The Reason Surprised Scientists
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This Bug Waves at You in the Forest. The Reason Surprised Scientists

  • September 28, 2025
Matador bug, Bitta alipes (former Anisoscelis alipes), a leaf-footed bug (family Coreidae) with impressive, large, colorful flags on…
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Insects trapped in amber shed light on ancient Amazon rainforest
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Insects trapped in amber shed light on ancient Amazon rainforest

  • September 22, 2025
WASHINGTON — Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh…
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The Atlas blue butterfly (Polyommatus atlantica). Image credit: Roger Vila.
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Atlas Blue Butterfly Has 229 Pairs of Chromosomes, Scientists Find

  • September 11, 2025
Scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva in Spain have sequenced the genome…
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