A new paper published today (28 June) reports a new family of flies has been discovered in the UK for the first time. The Cottony cushion scale parasite fly (Cryptochetum iceryae) is part of the ...

For more than 60 years, evolutionary biologists have debated whether a unique genetic system found in ants, bees and wasps ...

The family tree covering almost half the animal species on the planet has been re-drawn following a genetic analysis which has revealed new relationships between four major groups of insects.

Over 120 years ago, James May was hunting bugs in Brazil; using beer to get butterflies drunk before catching them. “It’s pretty bizarre,” said May’s great-granddaughter, Diana Fruh, one of the heirs ...