In contrast, the Pic’s plastic grid is ideal for grabbing and holding bug guts, and to clean it you often need to run it under a faucet. As for the actual fly killing, the Hope swatter is very ...

The team believes the technique could inspire innovative designs for micro-scale flying devices ... cameras and computer analysis to understand the unique mechanisms the insect uses to stay ...

Harvard's RoboBee will one day conduct artificial pollination and survey disaster zones, but first it has to stop crash landing.

That’s a sad 0.22 percent. Given this, it’s no shock that the authors of the study concluded that bug zappers are “worthless for biting fly reduction.” In a similar vein, the American ...

What really moves Dickinson is the insects' flying proficiency. The first organisms to evolve flight, insects still represent the most sophisticated aerial machine on the planet, he says. Flies, in ...