Insect [noun]

The findings could illustrate for the first time that, when targeted with pesticides, changes to the physical traits of “pest” species can occur in bigger animals, not just insects and rodents.

After a few weeks, that larval insect wraps itself in a jade green covering.

Prior to this new find, the oldest plant bedding — mainly consisting of sedge leaves, ash and aromatic plants likely used to keep insects away — dated to around 77,000 years ago at South Africa’s Sibudu rock-shelter.

Chemical communication among insects isn’t always monosyllabic, with a single compound changing a behavior wholesale.

Miyako and Yang say their bubble solution was biocompatible, but Potts worries that dousing flowers in human-made substances could dissuade insects from visiting those trees.

It sounded like a zany health food experiment, but Vaccaro searched out antioxidants known to work in flies, then fed them to the insects.

Research has found that insect pollinators, such as bees, are especially vulnerable.

The first insects appeared in fossils from around 320 million or 330 million years ago.

They visited 50 homes around Raleigh, collecting any living or dead insects, arachnids or other arthropods they could find.

When the laser’s light warmed a butterfly’s veins too much, the insect flapped its wings.