After being born late in the summer season they mate and stock up on energy before finding a place to hibernate for the winter. ... But there is a lot of variation in how insects do respond to the ...

Insects, like humans, detect light with their eyes. ... After being born late in the summer season they mate and stock up on energy before finding a place to hibernate for the winter.

A team of ecologists and evolutionary biologists at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, has found that some normally asexual species of stick insects, which are known to reproduce via ...

During that period, the cicadas mature, mate and lay eggs before dying off, with their offspring beginning the cycle again. The timing of their emergence is influenced by soil temperatures ...