Paleobiologist Scott Lakeram analyzes 300-million-year-old coal ball fossils to reveal prehistoric plant-insect interactions ...

The evolution of insect-eating birds may have spurred rapid changes in the flight ability of ancient cicadas, according to ...

In natural and agricultural ecosystems, omnivorous insects are omnipresent. Whether they are 'true omnivores' that require both plant and prey resources to complete their life-cycle, 'herbivores ...

Insect Evolution is an exciting game where you will join the world of insects and be able to go all the way through their evolution. Starting with a small egg, you will develop and transform into ...

In the insect world things are often not what they seem, especially if you're a hungry predator. For 250 million years, insects have survived because they often appear to be something other than ...

Thrips are tiny insects—their sizes range between 0.5mm and 15mm in length and many are shorter than 5mm. But the damage they ...

For more than a century, researchers have argued over the evolutionary origin of insect wings. Although many hypotheses ... Moreover, she adds, the origin of wings is not the only facet of their ...

“Both symbiosis and horizontal gene transfer have profoundly influenced insect evolution.” One of the study’s striking findings is the binary distribution of pectinases among leaf beetle ...

Using two species of flies from different climates -- one from the cool, high-altitude forests of Northern California, the other hailing from the hot, dry deserts of the Southwest -- scientists ...

Insect Ecology and Adaptation - research group studies diverse topics of insect ecology and evolution. Our model systems include both economically important forest insects (e.g. pine sawflies and bark ...