See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Flying insects are known to make a beeline for lights in the dark, as ...

Astronomers have spotted clouds of vaporized sand on an exoplanet. And, weather radar data reveal insects in U.S. skies—100 ...

Research now shows that mosquitoes may bite the hand that feeds them Deet — at least in time. The commonly used chemical — which is the gold standard ingredient approved by the Environmental ...

In such circumstances, hungry mosquitoes are most likely to be able to put up with the faint odour of DEET, bite a lightly ...

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Most insects are harmless, and many play an important role in the environment. But a small number possess painful stings, ...

Washington — Like a moth to flame, many scientists and poets have long assumed that flying insects were simply, inexorably drawn to bright lights. But that's not exactly what's going on, a new study ...

The insects flying in circles around your porch light aren’t captivated by the light. Instead, they may have lost track of which way is up, high-speed infrared camera data suggest. Moths and other ...

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Dragonflies the size of hawks once stalked Earth’s skies. Scientists thought they knew why they’d gone away – but a decades old theory may have just been disproven ...

This article was originally published by Undark. Bees have long impressed the behavioral scientist Lars Chittka. In his lab at Queen Mary University of London, the pollinators have proved themselves ...