Christophe Galfard reçoit l'autrice Cécile Coulon, l'écologue Kaïna Privet et l'entomologiste Antoine Guiguet pour un combat entre guêpe et araignée.

Hoe zit het met de toekomst? Mijn collega Merve Tabur onderzoekt science fiction uit Zuidwest-Azië en Noord-Afrika. Daarin spelen niet de eeuwige techbro's met doemscenario's of 'oplossingen voor de w...

Lipid scavengers are organisms that rely on exogenous lipid acquisition as they lack the ability to synthesize fatty acids de novo or in sufficient qu…

This is the twenty-ninth entry in an ongoing series profiling the amazing identifiers of iNaturalist. An iNaturalist observation records an encounter between an observer and an organism or recent evid...

A strikingly handsome emerald-green moth, lost to science for nearly one-and-a-half centuries, has been rediscovered in South Africa by citizen scientists who posted photographs of it online. The…

While the majority of galling insects induce visible alterations to their host plants, there are many species that induce inconspicuous galls, changing only the internal structure of the host plant...

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is an important source of gene innovation in prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms. Several genes acquired by hosts of parasitoid wasps via HGT have been reported to prot...

Welcome back Arthro-Poders! Today we chat with Louis Nastasi about gall wasps. Louis recently defended his PhD dissertation at Penn State, which focused on the herb gall wasps (Cynipidae: Aulacideini)...

Abstract. Understanding the drivers of biodiversity is a central goal in evolutionary biology. In particular, sexual selection has long been proposed as a

Butterflies and Moths from Tambopata, Peru on June 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM by Kenneth Geisert. Finca Las Piedras Time and location approximate

Many insects induce plants to grow unusual swellings to feed and house them. This gallery shows a few of them.

Life on Earth nearly came to an end during the end-Permian mass extinction (EPME; c. 252 Ma). In its aftermath, the Triassic witnessed the adaptation …

Bird beaks are highly adaptable, with the potential to undergo rapid morphological shifts in response to environmental change such as climatic variation or food availability. Anna's Hummingbirds (Cal...

Advances in single-cell and spatial omics technologies have revolutionised biology by revealing the diverse molecular states of individual cells and their spatial organization within tissues. The fie...