Distantly related, lookalike Heliconius species arrive at the same appearance using the same few genes, but regulated differently, according to recent studies.

Watch soldier ants behave more like foragers after scientists change their gene expression.

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.

Both modern and ancient crane fly eyes contain eumelanin, a light-screening pigment.

Insect eggs can take any shape at almost any size, refuting explanations for their dimensions based on geometric scaling laws or on relationships between egg traits and adult traits.

US honeybee colonies took the largest hit since the Bee Informed Partnership started counting in 2006.

A decade-long study tallies the numbers of pest-eating, flower-pollinating hoverflies that travel to the UK every year, and illustrates their important ecological roles in southern Britain.

Of the Hemiptera bugs, milkweed-chomping Oncopeltus fasciatus have hung onto more smell and taste receptors than their liquid-guzzling relatives.

Over the course of their lives, the jumping spider Synemosyna formica wears two different ant disguises to fool preying birds.