A German startup fields NATO-ready insect swarms while Singapore and Japan develop disaster rescue platforms, creating a split between benevolent and military futures for bio-hybrid technology ...

First look: In Singapore, the future of infrastructure inspection may scuttle rather than roll. At Nanyang Technological University, researchers are adapting cyborg cockroaches – hybrid insects ...

While cockroaches may not be the most romantic animal, the ‘Salganea taiwanensis’ species is sexually, socially and ...

Ben Hoare discovers the extraordinary birds that defy nature’s norms – from hibernation to one that behaves like a cow.

Salganea taiwanensis, a kind of wood-feeding cockroach, may engage in what's known as pair bonding, a new study finds.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is shining a light on a new member of a famous feathered family—that of the world’s oldest ...

Winged ants aren’t random pests. Discover why over 1,000 US species take flight, form super colonies, and how to stop them for good.

Water bugs look like big cockroaches, but they're a completely different species. And they bite. Here's how to tell these two insects apart.

How do you impress a potential love interest? Bring them flowers and chocolates, offer to pay for dinner, or even buy them a gift? Well, in the cockroach world, males and females do things a little ...

Humans might show commitment with a ring, penguins offer prospective mates rocks and some beetles gift a ball of dung. Wood-feeding cockroaches show commitment with a nibble of cannibalism — and then ...

Scientists have discovered that, far from being solitary insects, some cockroaches appear to form an exclusive bond with a partner. And how do they get this relationship off the ground? By eating each ...