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Fireflies use a glowing chemical reaction to signal to one another in the dark of dusk and night.

Scientists believe toe-biting giant water bugs have arrived in Cyprus from the mainland, but they're not sure why or how.

Footage shows termites trapped inside a fungus in a death spiral, where they march until they die from exhaustion.

Just as humans rely on their eyes to make precise movements with their hands, hummingbird hawk-moths use continuous visual feedback to precisely position their proboscis in the center of flowers.

Flowers use a variety of strategies to inform pollinating insects about their pollen reserves, including color, smell and even electrical changes.

Periodical cicadas belonging to two separate broods, Brood XIII and Brood XIX, will emerge together in a dual emergence event that will see a trillion cicadas buzzing across 16 U.S. states.

Artificial lights can be deadly to the insects that fly around them, so why do these critters do it?

Video footage from a new series captures thousands of ants building a living-raft to save the colony from drowning in a swimming pool.

A newfound species of fungus gnat is behind Alaska's "snake worm" mystery, in which thousands of fly larvae moved together in the shape of a snake.

American burying beetle parents work together to find and bury a dead animal that its brood can consume after hatching.