A professor's study of silk-weaving ants is promising to change our understanding of how all creatures work together. The study on the behaviour of the ants found the insects could evolve and abandon ...

This is a golden orb-weaver, Nephila pilipes. (Photo courtesy of Bing Heng Lee) (CN) – Using a bright yellow color similarly found in several flower heads, scientists revealed in a new study Monday ...

Pretty name, not-so-pretty domestic arrangements. The golden orb-weaving spider Nephila clavipes has the unpleasant habit of weaving rotting insect carcasses into its web. The results firmly ...

The fertility of both female and male tsetse flies is affected by a single burst of hot weather, researchers at the University of Bristol and Stellenbosch University in South Africa have found. The ...

Insects have weak ability to adjust their thermal limits to high temperatures and are thus more susceptible to global warming than previously thought. As more frequent and intense heat waves expose ...