And they said there was an urgent need to uncover the causes and extent of the decline in all airborne insects. "We don't know exactly what the causes are,'' said Hans de Kroon, also of Radboud ...

Biology in the background The average person doesn’t spend much time thinking about the biological mechanisms that allow a fruit fly to become airborne and to maneuver while it’s in flight. However, ...

Spiders have always lived alongside humans, so it's surprising how much we still don't know about them. One long-standing mystery was related to how spiders detect smells. Now, our latest research has ...

But Han deduced the spider launches its web in response to the vibrations of airborne insect wings. A silky slingshot The ray spider is smaller than a grain of rice. It spins its web as a classic ...