Other recipients of the award for laugh-worthy achievements experimented with alligators on helium and vibrating worms.

Using pigs as human proxies, forensic entomologists reveal how bodies in vehicles decompose differently from those dumped outside.

Researchers use advanced imaging techniques to see what happens when a male and a female mate.

PCR moves into the laundry room, while insect colonies take up residence in the shower.

The finding that a bacterium within a bacterium within an animal cell cooperates with the host on a biosynthetic pathway suggests the endosymbiont is, practically speaking, an organelle.

Nine months after a fire destroyed priceless collections, scientists are working restore the archives and keep their research afloat.

The young faculty member was active in outreach and teaching.

Lincoln Brower, an American entomologist famous for his work to conserve the monarch populations of Mexico and the US, has passed away at age 86.

A pesticide industry leader, Hutchins was formerly president of the Entomological Society of America.

Some beetle species may have evolved to tunnel into the ground to escape the pathogens that abound on dead and rotting animals.

A new species of ant discovered in Borneo fends off invaders with a uniquely suicidal strategy.

Quentin Wheeler’s firing of department chairs earlier this year didn’t sit well with university faculty members.  

There are countless ways for scientists to say, “I love you.” Naming a slime-mold beetle after your wife (and another after your ex-wife) is, apparently, one of them.  

Over the past seven years, Xiao-Long Lin has characterized nearly 70 new species of nonbiting midges and developed DNA barcodes to aid in future ecological surveys.

One species has developed a novel waggle to warn about invading wasps.

The 200-million-year-old fossils, the earliest found of lepidopterans, show characteristics of extant moths.

Entomologists have rediscovered a species of moth that was considered lost for 130 years. 

Important pollinators under threat from habitat destruction, bumblebees may find refuge on vacant land throughout Michigan’s largest metropolis.

The green peach aphid can colonize new host plants with ease through rapid changes in gene expression.