Every year the Royal Entomological Society runs an insect photography competition for non-professionals. Here are some of the ...

Fruit fly eyes have a different structure than ours do ... Since fruit flies are such small insects, they are the target of a wide range of predators, so the ability to detect the motion of a possible ...

The Guinness World Record for highest flying insect is held by the tortoiseshell ... over the Zemu Glacier in the eastern Himalayas at an eye-watering altitude of 5,791 meters (19,000 feet).

Scientists have discovered the oldest fossil evidence of insect larvae with highly developed eyes, revealing that some ...

All told, insect pollinators contribute ... dragonfly Austrophlebia costalis has been clocked flying at a speed of 36 mph. Bees possess five eyes. The three ocelli are simple eyes that discern ...