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

Around 100 trillion insects fly in the skies above the USA on a summer's day, according to estimates by researchers from the ...

Although millions upon millions of living creatures fly, feed and reproduce in the air, this habitat has hardly been ...

Big black beetles with long antennae might be skittering around your yard or patio this time of year, but fear not: These are just the relatively harmless palo verde beetles, also known as palo verde ...

One of the largest and strongest beetles in the world hardly seems the best inspiration for a delicate flying microbot. But using slow-motion cameras to capture the critters in flight, an ...

Swiss and American researchers have used weather radar data to estimate the number of insects flying in the skies over the United States.

An international team of researchers describes in detail the mechanisms of the extraordinarily fast flight of the smallest free-living insects, beetles of the featherwing family (Ptiliidae). The team ...

Scientists have created a flying robot inspired by how a rhinoceros beetle flaps its wings to take off. The concept is based on how some birds, bats, and other insects tuck their wings against their ...

According to its developers, the new robot features flapping wings that are powered by a set of artificial muscles that ...