Tennessee is home to over a thousand insects, but a few are quite sizable. Discover the biggest insects that live in the ...

Fly fishing for trout on a stream or river could be addictive. The ability of an angler to try and present an imitation fly ...

Purple martins roost in large numbers of hundreds of thousands of individuals to prepare for their annual migration to South ...

Peak black fly season has passed in Michigan which is typically around mid-May through mid-June, but they continue to bite ...

While the mosquito might be an obvious choice, dragonflies can stop on a dime at 35 miles an hour and even fly backward.

Marina Henke: With insects, wings diversify even more. That’s because when you're really tiny, the viscosity of the air ...

Scientists are unraveling the secrets behind insect flight, revealing the complex mechanics of their wing hinges. Caltech researchers, led by Professor Michael Dickinson, discovered that 12 tiny ...

With huge wings and unusual looks, they are some of the biggest insects ever found. Here’s a look at six flying insects that prove size really can surprise you.

The wings managed to flap like an insect’s, but the bot couldn’t fly for long. One problem is that the wings would blow air into each other when flapping, reducing the lift forces they could ...

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Inspired by the humble bee, robotics researchers at MIT have designed insect-sized aerial bots with a reimagined wing system that can fly for up to 1,000 seconds – 100 times more than any ...

Reports Wigglesworth: the carbohydrate-fueled fruit fly, Drosophila, can stay aloft for five hours at a stretch, but it beats its wings 250 times per second, and it burns up 10% of its body weight ...