For the harlequin bug, the trick lies in the color orange. The bug’s shell is pale to bright orange all over and sometimes its back is spotted with iridescent blue-green patches.

You’ve probably seen or heard at least once in your lifetime about fireflies – the famous light-emitting insects! They form ...

Bed bugs have favorite colors, new research has discovered. In a series of experiments, researchers noted that the little blood suckers strongly preferred red and black and avoided green and yellow.

Bed bugs pretty much avoided green and yellow tents. ... The scientists do think, however, that this insight into a bed bug’s favorite color could one day enhance the efficacy of bed bug traps.

Bed bugs of different ages, genders, and state of feeding were used in the experiment. They could choose from eight different colored tents including lilac, violet, blue, orange, green, yellow ...

This bed bug has favorite colors, too. David Scharf/Corbis . Given that female bed bugs lay over 200 eggs during their lifetime, it’s not surprising that an estimated one out of five American ...

The vibrant colors also may have been part of the bugs' thermoregulation. The findings were published on Tuesday in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The bugs examined in the study.