Understanding the evolution of insect mating behavior is essential for explaining how early insects adapted to life on land.

With species the world over on the move due to climate change, a unique experiment in the wake of 2017's Hurricane Harvey has revealed a way that species can instantly evolve when they move in ...

Time travel with insects -- The buggy planet -- Rise of the arthropods -- The Cambrian period, 541-485 million years ago, and the Ordovician period, 485-444 million years ago -- Silurian landfall -- ...

Understanding the evolution of insect mating behavior is essential for explaining how early insects adapted to life on land.

DNA analysis suggests that cities could have helped bed bugs to become early adopters of the pest lifestyle 1. Bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) first made the leap from bats to early humans around 250,000 ...

Researchers discover that insect sex systems influence the speed of mitochondrial evolution, impacting biodiversity tracking ...

Researchers compared the whole genome sequence of two genetically distinct lineages of bed bug, and their findings indicate bed bugs may well be the first true urban pest. Ever since a few ...

Bed bugs are a nuisance that often infect travelers in hotel rooms or used furniture that's brought into a new home. For thousands of years, bed bugs have enjoyed living off their human hosts, and it ...