Compared with other ultrablack animals, female velvet ants are darker than the common birdwing butterfly, the only other insect known to display such a shade. The velvet ants’ coloring is closer to ...

As winged insects go about the important business of pollinating plants, you may wonder whether the little guy that just ...

Wasps pose significant dangers, as even a single wasp or a large group can inflict harm or even be fatal to sensitive ...

Already a problem in France it likes nothing more than eating European honey bees. It's arrival here would be a problem for struggling bee populations. Like many invasive species the hornet has ...

The non-native Asian hornet, which arrived in France in a cargo of pottery from China about 20 years ago and has spread rapidly across the continent, can kill 50 bees a day and has devastated ...

Dr Gavin Broad, Senior Curator of Hymenoptera, explains the gruesome phenomenon. A butterfly is just one of the creatures that might end up emerging from a chrysalis or a pupa. Butterflies and ...