The insect realm is rife with creepy-crawlies, be they smelly stink bugs, sneaky weevils, or simply slimy cockroaches. Yet certain bugs are capable of wreaking havoc in the garden, destroying harvests ...

When you hear the term kissing bug, you might imagine an insect with a romantic streak. However, they are more vampire than ...

Every so often around the BiodiversityWorks office, where I hold my real job, somebody finds something cool, and we all flock ...

Nikolai Tatarnic pulls over at the side of a dirt track in outback Western Australia. He has spotted something that, to him, has great potential: a tree with stringy and loose bark. Dr Tatarnic starts ...

A new species of "assassin bug" — a type of gutsy predatory insect that neutralizes prey using its thorny front legs and sharp, needlelike mouth — has been discovered deep in a limestone cave in ...

A new species of assassin bug has been discovered in the wilds of Australia that uses a “tool” to capture its prey. It’s one of several species scientists have documented using complex methods to ...

Kissing bugs, also known as eastern-cone-nose bugs or triatomine, can bite faces and infect humans with Chagas disease. Chagas is a parasitic infection that can cause fever, aches and, in severe cases ...

When I went out to get the mail the other day, I paused to admire, as I often do, the variety of insects and arachnids buzzing, flitting and crawling about the big lantana bush next to my mailbox in ...