Millions of years ago, oversized insects such as griffinflies boasting wingspans comparable to today's hawks scuttled across (and fluttered above) the planet. But why these jumbo jets of the insect ...

Global relationship between body size shifts and biogeographical range shifts between the tropical and temperate zone in extant Odonata. Credit: Journal of Biogeography (2022). DOI: 10.1111/jbi.14544 ...

I like big bugs. I cannot lie. But which insect is the biggest? I asked my friend Rich Zack. He’s an insect scientist at Washington State University. He told me the answer depends on how you define ...

Turns out, as dinosaurs evolved flight and eventually took to the skies as birds, they beat down the huge insects already living there, effectively putting a cap on insect size through predation and ...

Look at the nail of your pinky finger. That’s about the width of the biggest known insect egg, which belongs to the earth-borer beetle Bolboleaus hiaticollis. The smallest egg, from the wasp ...

Researchers have created a robotic flying insect powered by lasers. The news: Behold RoboFly, a laser-powered robot built by University of Washington researchers that weighs in at slightly more than a ...

Using weather radar data, researchers estimated that roughly 100 trillion insects are flying above the United States on a ...

People Can’t Get Over the Size of New Stick Insect Species Found in Australia originally appeared on PetHelpful. There are some seriously big bugs out there, but none quite like this one! A new ...

The ability to rapidly shrink down to bug size (and beyond) gives Ant-Man and the Wasp tremendous advantages. But it also comes with some scale-related drawbacks, most notably, more difficulty ...

The size of dragonflies and damselflies varies around the globe. These insects are generally larger in temperate areas than in the tropics. According to a new study from Lund University in Sweden, ...