LAGRANGE – Winter can be a time of significant temperature variation. Cold snaps and warmer than usual spells often spark ...

In general, insect populations are highly influenced by the weather, both during the growing season and winter. Most of the insects that inhabit North Dakota are known as "cold hardy insects," which ...

The UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology will emphasize “fire and insects” when it hosts an open house, “Extreme Insects: Fire and Ice,” on Sunday afternoon. The public event, to take place from 1 to ...

Insects have weak ability to adjust their thermal limits to high temperatures and are thus more susceptible to global warming than previously thought. As more frequent and intense heat waves expose ...

Madison is a freelance science reporter and full-time fact-checker based in the wild Rocky Mountains of western Montana. Madison is a freelance science reporter and full-time fact-checker based in the ...

A mosquito draws blood from a person's arm — a reminder of the health risks posed by rising mosquito populations and the importance of prevention. Climate change symptoms like rising temperatures in ...

If it feels like some insects have been more plentiful this summer, you're right and we could get a break soon, an entomology expert said. In early June, both mosquitoes and cicadas arrived in large ...

The Antarctic midge is a simple insect: no wings, a slender black body and an adult life span of not much more than a week. So perhaps it's fitting the bug is now on record as the owner of the tiniest ...

Nature is inspiring scientists all the time. Some ideas are still in research, like beaver-inspired super-warm wetsuits. But others are already part of human life, like velcro (based on burdock burrs) ...

As more frequent and intense heat waves expose animals to temperatures outside of their normal limits, an international team has studied over 100 species of insect to better understand how these ...