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 ...

The evolutionary success of leaf beetles, the most varied herbivores on Earth, was investigated by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Max Planck Institute of ...

For Professor Michal Segoli of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, these tiny creatures are a lifelong fascination and the ...

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

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 ...

From insect larvae that keep munching on pesticide ... It's a huge problem, but the pests are only following the rules of evolution: the best-adapted survive. Every time chemicals are sprayed ...

For decades scientists assumed these insects looked so much like orchids as a form of camouflage. But they were wrong. They look this way because they're deceptive predators.