Despite only about 25% of car travel happening after dark, almost half of fatal accidents occur at night. As our vehicles become more advanced and even autonomous, the ways of detecting and avoiding ...

All around us, insects are speaking to each other: jockeying for mates, searching for food, and trying to avoid becoming someone else’s next meal. Some of this communication is easy to spot—like the ...

Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...

Micro-Doppler signatures could help monitor vital pollinator populations ...

Social learning and use of social information in general have been understood to be largely restricted to vertebrates. Among insects, social learning or processes akin to it have been reported only in ...

Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode The Birds and the Bees. Insects experience the world very differently from humans--but they still have a lot to teach us. Behavioral ecologist Marlene Zuk explores ...

More than 1,000 third graders from across Tulsa spent Thursday learning about insects up close during the Exploring Insects event hosted by Tulsa Master Gardeners and OSU at Expo Square. TULSA, Okla. ...

From butterfly life cycles to backyard bug hunts, insect-themed activities are capturing preschoolers’ curiosity while building early skills. Teachers and parents are using playful, hands-on bug ...