A new genetic engineering technology could help eliminate malaria and stave off extinctions — if humanity decides to unleash it.

Wildlife ecologist Sophie Petit was camping on South Australia’s Kangaroo Island one night in 2016, when she noticed something unusual: sugar ants swarming a spot in the sand where she had urinated a couple of hours earlier. To her wonder, the ants came back, night after night, seeking more pee. Now, 3 years later, Petit has found that the insects crave the urine of people, kangaroos, and other animals, likely to survive the island’s nutrient-scarce environment. They even prefer it to sugar water.

Researchers combined sterilization with a bacterium in an attempt to stamp out the Asian tiger mosquito.

"A decline on that scale over a period of just 10 years came as a complete surprise to us," said one researcher, "but fits the picture presented in a growing number of studies."

Report claims 400,000 insect species face extinction amid heavy use of pesticides

Claims that insects will disappear within a century are absurd, but the reality isn’t reassuring either.

How real is insectageddon?

Fire chaser beetles' ability to sense heat borders on the spooky

A fungus has been genetically modified with spider venom to kill the mosquitoes that spread malaria.

The insects' trash is one farmer's treasure.

Blood type, metabolism, exercise, shirt color and even drinking beer can make individuals especially delicious to mosquitoes

When they jump, fleas accelerate faster than a space shuttle. In fact, more than 20 times faster. Due to their size and the force used to jump those great distances, their acceleration is approximately 100 times the force of gravity.

The roach populations not only survived the chemical assaults, but ultimately grew stronger. In some cases, they even saw their populations grow.

Most common household cockroach able to develop ‘cross resistance’ to multiple types of chemicals, US study finds

Long gone from their home in San Francisco, the California pipevine swallowtail is back thanks to one man transforming his yard into a habitat for them The iridescent blue wings of the California pipevine swallowtail are considered by collectors to be among the most magnificent in North America.

A team, led by researchers at the University of Washington, has discovered how the female mosquito brain integrates visual and olfactory signals to identify, track and hone in on a potential host.

The firefly beetle is not only a new species but also part of an entirely new genus and subfamily of bioluminscent beetle.

Matt Johnson treks along an Arizona riverbank and picks out a patch of yellow-tinged tamarisks. He sweeps a cloth net across the trees, hoping to scoop up beetles that munch on their evergreen-like leaves.

New findings presented by the University of California, Riverside, demonstrate how male honeybees inject toxins during sex that cause temporary blindness in their mate. It is not a foreign concept that male insects have proteins in their seminal fluid that causes the death of other insect’s sperm. However, the function of blinding one’s mate is highly unusual.

Worms fail to thrive in earth containing microplastics, new research has shown, adding to the growing body of evidence of impacts from the increasingly widespread contaminants on the natural world. The rosy-tipped earthworm, Aporrectodea rosea, is one of the most common found in farmland in temperate regions.