For all the insects that you see, there are dozens more zipping above your head. Many are too small to catch with the naked ...

Spotting a tiny bug on your body can immediately trigger panic about lice, whether it was found in your hair or not. However, ...

A tiny spider discovered in Colombia, Pikelinia floydmuraria, lives on city walls and surprises observers by hunting much ...

Deep in the Sonoran Desert lives a tiny insect with one of the most powerful venoms ever measured—the Maricopa harvester ant.

WASHINGTON — After the major winter storm, some people stepping outside may have noticed what looks like a dusting of dirt or black pepper scattered across fresh snow. But those tiny specks aren’t ...

Tiny city gardens can be a haven for wildlife such as insects, a study of small city gardens in the Netherlands has found. The two factors that offer the biggest boost are having lots of plants and ...

What initially draws my eyes to the tall, stalky plant growing near the Oconaluftee Visitor Center in Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the round, green bulge in a stem near its crown. Called ...

Sean Humbert is unlocking the biological secrets of the common housefly to make major advances in robotics and uncrewed aerial systems (UAS). A professor in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical ...

Hidden in the forests of southeastern Australia lives one of the most dangerous insects on Earth—the bulldog ant. Armed with powerful neurotoxic venom more potent than some infamous spiders, these ...