The preserved insects, from a cache of Lebanese resin, appear to be male but have mouth parts that are found only on modern female mosquitoes.

Warm weather often means the emergence of pests —even on our houseplants. Summer is a crucial time to examine your indoor ...

All bugs are insects, but not all insects are bugs, Brown says.

While some insects (like mosquitos) need to suck blood to survive, most other insects bite only to protect themselves or their territories. They pierce our skin using their mouth parts or stingers, ...

Chewing insects have mouth parts that enable them to bite into and chew plant tissue. Some insects will burrow into soft, leafy tissue and consume the fleshy material below the leaf surface.

They are furry protuberances beside the curled tubular mouth, the proboscis. The wood nymph in the photo appears to have just four legs, because the diminished front legs are usually mistaken for ...

Researchers found a male mosquito trapped in amber 130 million years ago, the oldest ever discovered. And it could do something no male mosquito alive today can do.

“It's not a terribly picky insect,” she said, citing more than 100 plants on which the bug feeds. Unlike the Japanese beetle, another foreign invader that mostly eats plant leaves and has ...

The Anson County Sheriff's Office is investigating a report of a customer experiencing numbness in their mouth after eating Bojangles food.

The insect feeds with piercing/sucking mouth parts that extract nutrients from tree needles and cause them to yellow.

Specifically, they found that Gr64e, a receptor associated with neurons located in the fly's mouth-parts, is instrumental in signaling a good taste for beer.

The Anson County Sheriff's Office is investigating a report of a customer experiencing numbness in their mouth after eating ...