In our research based in Kibale National Park, Uganda, chimpanzees have been seen applying insects to their own open wounds on five occasions, and in one case to another individual.

Analysis - Animals respond to injury in many ways. So far, evidence for animals tending wounds with biologically active materials is rare. Yet, a recent study of an orangutan treating a wound with a ...

Insect smuggling rarely grabs headlines, yet it has real consequences. The trades draw far less public concern than big‑animal crime.

Everyone loves fireflies, the famous light-emitting insects that flit through gardens on summer evenings! They form the ...

Dead trees also provide shelter for birds, such as six types of woodpeckers, owls, chickadees, bluebirds, wrens, nuthatches and American kestrels.

“These are kind of the bane of the average homeowner's kitchen. They'll buzz around fresh fruit out on the counter. They'll buzz around trash. They'll buzz around, you know, wet sponges and that kind ...

If you have a fruit bowl in your kitchen that's regularly full of apples, oranges, bananas, and other fruits which are safe at room temperature, then you've probably seen at least one fruit fly ...

These dragonflies landed on a wall near me recently as I was eating my lunch. At first, I thought it was a large, unusual ...

We often hear about how social media stokes division and removes us from human contact. But my favorite app brings us closer to nature — and each other.

A parasitic worm uses static electricity to launch itself onto flying insects, a mechanism uncovered by physicists and biologists at Emory and Berkeley. By generating opposite charges, the worm and ...

Caitlyn Forster previously received funding from the Australian Research Council. She is affiliated with Invertebrates Australia. As the weather starts to warm in Australia, you might notice the ...

The Women’s World Cup match between India and Pakistan was halted because of a flying-insect infestation which required the pitch to be fumigated mid-game. The swarming bugs had been a problem since ...