While the Bureau of Meteorology is predicting an increase in the average temperature this summer, entomologists are forecasting an increase in insect activity.
For many Australians these big, ornamental-looking beetles are a happy sign of the start of the silly season – but are their numbers dwindling?
Despite a fearsome reputation in other parts of the world, scorpions in Australia are relatively harmless and come in a surprising variety of sizes and colours.
Insects have the capacity for ‘subjective experience’ and the brain structures that support this basic form of consciousness originated more than 480 million years ago, two Australian researchers have argued in a paper out today.
Delicate and beautiful, butterflies are also intrepid travellers, making impressive journeys across the globe.
Eating insects is growing in popularity. Are they just a trendy addition to city restaurants, or might they be the solution to feeding the planet’s burgeoning population?
AG reader Ally Wilson spent hours capturing this footage of a cicada shedding its exoskeleton.
We’re all familiar with the sight of a bee burying its head in a flower, but what actually happens in those moments before it re-emerges, covered in pollen?
This elephant weevil was found climbing among the bright colours of a Gold Coast garden.
Considered a ‘living fossil’, the dinosaur ant may have finally met its match in climate change