The scent of blooming flowers and fresh plant life is not just a perk of springtime; it is a key driver in the survival and ...

New research uncovers the surprising role of plant scents in insect diets and evolution especially butterflies and moths.

With electron microscopes that magnify butterfly wings 50,000 times their original size, a hidden ‘topography’ emerges ...

Help save the Earth by replacing half your lawn and/or non-native plants with native species, even in containers, plus a list ...

In this particular exhibition at the Staten Island Museum, even the pink of the walls comes from bugs — in the form of lac, a ...

It’s not easy to find a full house these days for literary activities, but there was a packed auditorium at the International ...

Confined field trials of BT cotton at five sites in Zimbabwe show positive results giving more scope for the country to scale ...

A new study warns that global climate change may have a devastating effect on butterflies, turning their species-rich, mountain habitats from refuges into traps. Think of it as the 'butterfly effect' ...

Evolution is the process of heritable change in populations of organisms over multiple generations. Evolutionary biology is the study of this process, which can occur through mechanisms including ...