Right now, there’s a fly walking on the window in my office. I asked my friend Rich Zack how it does that. He’s an insect scientist at Washington State University. It turns out my window isn’t as ...

There are about 40 kinds of cats out there – like me. There’s only one kind of human on Earth now. But there are more than a million kinds of insects. That’s just the insect species we know about.

In some insects, legs have been lost in the abdomen; in others they have moved to the head, becoming antennas. Tomoyasu and Linz worked with Tribolium, or flour beetles, a common subject because of ...

Many insect species hear using tympanal organs, membranes roughly resembling our eardrums but located on their legs. Grasshoppers, mantises, and moths all have them, and for decades, we thought that ...

A little leg may reveal something big about how closely related insect species can drastically differ in body shape, according to a new study. The team imaged live cells of fruit flies in the last ...

From fruit flies to climbing beetles, many insects rely on the tripod gait — keeping three legs on the ground at all times — even when faster gaits exist. This strategy trades speed for stability, ...