Clark, who has died aged 90, was a zoologist of invertebrates and dedicated teacher who solved two great puzzles in insect ...

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources recently posted a little snow flea refresher for us on its social media page. The bottom line: These little black specks do wriggle on top of the snow and ...

Sharpshooters are large leafhopper insects in the scientific family Cicadellidae ... They also have powerful back legs, allowing them to jump and escape predators quickly. This comes in handy ...

You may not know what a springtail is but man, those little things can jump! Scientists have now copied the creatures' jumping mechanism in a small robot that could one day explore places that people ...

Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of ...

We're working hard to protect them. And insects are declining across the globe. Their extinction crisis jump-started in the mid-20th century and has dramatically worsened over the past few decades.

We're working hard to protect them. And insects are declining across the globe. Their extinction crisis jump-started in the mid-20th century and has dramatically worsened over the past few decades.