Health Aug 30 What to know about flesh-eating screwworms (and why you don’t need to panic) By Grace Abels, PolitiFact
Science Aug 17 Watch 2:54 A photographer’s quest to raise awareness of fireflies under threat with dazzling images For many people, fireflies are part of the story of summer, evoking memories of lazy, hot evenings spent trying to catch them in glass jars. Now, one man is still trying to catch them — not with a jar, but… By John Yang, Harry Zahn
World Jul 01 ‘Lovebugs’ swarm South Korea, blanketing a mountain peak The insects do not transmit diseases or sting humans, but there have been increasing public complaints about lovebugs sticking to car windows and the walls of houses, restaurants and subway trains. By Hyung-Jin Kim, Associated Press
Science Jun 18 Meet the moths that map the stars to fly long distances It's an impressive feat for Bogong moths, whose brains are smaller than the size of a grain of rice, to rely on the night sky for their odyssey, said study author David Dreyer with Lund University in Sweden. By Adithi Ramakrishnan, Associated Press
Health Oct 05 North Carolina distributes EpiPens and Benadryl as stinging insects swarm after Helene Deadly flooding from Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina has also disrupted the underground nests of yellow jackets, bees and other insects, causing them to swarm and sting people struggling to recover from the storm. By Devi Shastri, Associated Press
Sep 28 Why bees and human shoppers have more in common than you think By Claire Therese Hemingway, The Conversation Just like people shopping for food at grocery stores, bees make sometimes irrational decisions about which flowers to visit depending on their recent experience with similar flowers and what other flowers are available. Continue reading
Feb 08 These pansies are evolving to rely less on pollinators. Here’s why that may spell trouble By Bella Isaacs-Thomas Pollinator populations have plummeted across the globe. In their absence, research has shown that flowering plants can evolve to rely more heavily on themselves to reproduce. Continue reading
Jan 30 Are insects drawn to light? New research shows it’s confusion, not attraction By Christina Larson, Associated Press Rather than being attracted to light, researchers believe that artificial lights at night may actually scramble flying insects' innate navigational systems. Continue reading
Jul 01 Ticks can use static electricity to land on you and your pets, study finds By Maddie Burakoff, Associated Press Hungry ticks have some slick tricks. They can zoom through the air using static electricity to latch onto people, pets and other animals, new research shows. Continue reading
Apr 27 Watch 6:47 Cicada season: What to expect from the coming brood that’s been underground for 17 years By John Yang, Diane Lincoln Estes The bugs are coming - billions of them. The periodical cicada emergence is just days away in many states. While their emergence occurs every 17 years and is no reason for fear, experts worry climate change is spurring them to… Continue watching