The newly discovered species are named Spelaeochthonius dugigulensis, S. geumgulensis, S. magwihalmigulensis, and ...

"We know that daytime migratory insects use the sun, so testing the starry sky seemed an obvious thing to try." ...

Bogong moths are the first invertebrates known to navigate using the night sky during annual migrations to highland caves ...

Have you ever ventured into the depths of a dark cave only to be greeted by a mesmerizing glow? The spectacle of ...

Spiders have a reputation for being cunning – just look at the Ghanaian folktale Anansi. Now, research suggests that a ...

How a discarded bag of Cheetos is threatening a cave’s delicate ecosystem, home to bats and insects. Staff at Caverns National Park in New Mexico scorned the unknown visitor and warned how the ...

Billions of nocturnal Bogong moths migrate up to 1,000 km to cool caves in the Australian Alps that they have never previously visited. New research shows how they may find their way there and back.

Like with many small cave insects, the Kaua’i cave wolf spider isn’t easy to find. It was first discovered in 1971 and is only found in a few areas in Hawaii. Most wolf spiders are easily ...

MR. CARPENTER, Assistant Naturalist in the Science and Art Museum in Dublin, is favourably known to entomologists by numerous valuable papers on Lepidoptera, Odonata, cave-insects, economic ...

The rare 3,800-year-old textile fragments that were dyed with insects of the species Kermes vermilio in antiquity. The fragments were found in 2016 in the Cave of Skulls in the Judaean Desert.