Long Star ticks are generally found in the West, but they've recently made the jump to the East Coast, too. (NIAID/) This story originally featured on Outdoor Life. Our love of the outdoors can bring ...

Caterpillars shed their skin several times as they grow, and in the final stage of metamorphosis, they form their pupa (chrysalis). As the warm summer and spring suns arrives, it signals a change in ...

How complex ant societies emerged among ants’ solitary ancestors remains one of the big mysteries of social insect biology. Ants are eusocial, meaning that they have overlapping generations, ...

Life in an ant colony is a symphony of subtle interactions between insects acting in concert, more like cells in tissue than independent organisms bunking in a colony. Now, researchers have discovered ...

Lagria beetles have developed unusual physical traits to protect their progeny: Small invaginations on the backs of the larvae are inhabited by defensive bacteria. As shown in a new study, the ...

My life took an unexpected turn a week and a half ago when a friend of mine ended up having an unplanned hip replacement. Would I take care of her monarch butterfly nursery while she was laid up? Of ...

For more than a century, marine biologists have been puzzled by the mysterious y-larvae, tiny marine creature found in plankton samples across the globe. Despite being known since the 1800s, no one ...

Life in an ant colony is a symphony of subtle interactions between insects acting in concert, more like cells in tissue than independent organisms bunking in a colony. Now, researchers have discovered ...