Researchers have documented for the first time that insects can hear and react to plants’ acoustic distress signals, which ...

Researchers genetically modified the insects so that a group of brain cells that control sexual behavior could be ""switched on"" by a pulse of light. The team was able to get female fruit flies to ...

Birds and frogs do it, even whales have been known to do it. Now scientists have for the first time shown that insects also change the way they sing to one another when drowned out by man-made ...

Rafael Lucas Rodriguez, William G. Eberhard, Male Courtship before and During Copulation in Two Species of Xyonysius Bugs (Hemiptera, Lygaeidae), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, Vol. 67, ...

Male fruit flies exposed to ozone pollution may struggle to recognise members of the opposite sex and show an interest in other males instead, research suggests.

Object Details Author Wheeler, William Morton 1865-1937 Notes Includes index. Contents Introduction.--The physiognomy of insects.--Insect parasitism and its peculiarities.--A solitary wasp ...