Male flies have been genetically engineered to produce poisonous proteins in their seminal fluid, a technique that could be ...

New research suggests that Australian invertebrate species — animals without a backbone like arachnids but also insects, snails, crayfish and mussels — are winking out of existence every week.

For about two hours every week, the Squishy Vols, as they're known, meet for some meditative manual labour to squish bugs and scrape scale from plants in the glasshouses at the Australian National ...

After posting to a Facebook group of insect enthusiasts turned up no answers, Mr Tweed - who is a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland - took the bug to the CSIRO's Australian National ...

A super-fast super fly with wings that beat more than 300 times per second, a moth that migrates nearly 1,000 kilometres each ...

Aussies across parts of the country are waking up to find their gardens "swarmed" by little critters with tree trunks, lawns ...

But before you add "eating bugs" to the list of things you ... caught on in the more urban areas, many of Australia's indigenous cultures eat insects for protein. Back in the day, preparing ...