A formidable mosquito hunter with tiger-striped wings has been named Australia's top insect for 2025. The graphic flutterer dragonfly (Rhyothemis graphiptera) captured more than a quarter of all votes ...

Dec 6 (Reuters) - As a boy in the 1960s, David Wagner would run around his family’s Missouri farm with a glass jar clutched in his hand, scooping flickering fireflies out of the sky. “We could fill it ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today unveiled a new graphic that will be available to appear on insect repellent product labels. The graphic will show consumers how many ...

Turn on a light outside at night, and it won't be long before a bevy of insects start careening wildly around it, apparently drawn in "like a moth to a flame," as the saying goes. Now, in a series of ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. G’day, Dr Karl here. Are flying insects really attracted to bright artificial night time lights? The ...

Around 100 trillion insects fly in the skies above the USA on a summer's day, according to estimates by researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) and ...