A native New Zealand insect that once mimicked its toxic neighbor has changed color in deforested areas, in a striking example of human-induced evolution. Researchers from New Zealand's University of ...

When young spotted lanternflies grow, they become bright red. Around this time, they also begin to feed almost exclusively on the so-called tree of heaven, from which they suck bitter juices. In this ...

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In this episode of Big Ideas from the team behind Deep Look, Niba explores how insects actually see the world — from the ...

The intense red color of classic lipstick traditionally comes from an unlikely source: crushed bugs that live on cactus plants in South America. It takes tens of thousands of the ground-up insects to ...

Nature is full of colors, from the radiant shine of a peacock's feathers or the bright warning coloration of toxic frogs to the pearl-white camouflage of polar bears. Usually, fine structural detail ...

image: When young lanternflies (nymphs) change their color from mostly black (A) to mostly red (B), they also switch from feeding on juices from a variety of plants to feeding on juices of only one ...