Biodiversity is great in theory, but there are reasons to fend off invasive species and the knock-on effect of their presence Britain would be a wasteland if it weren’t for immigration. Fifteen ...

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An alien-like fossil of an insect trapped in amber from the time of the dinosaurs does not fit into any of the 31 orders of insects that scientists know about – so it's been put in another one all by ...

An 'annoying' alien-like insect is set to emerge from a 17-year slumber and wreak havoc across multiple US states this year, scientists have warned. Billions of 'Brood XIV' cicadas are currently ...

They may be pretty to look at, but these colourful bugs are attacking garden plants across Britain. An army of exotic invaders is devouring leaves and stripping stems bare up and down the country.

A terrifying 'alien-like' creature flexing its hairy tentacles has been captured in horrifying video footage. The monster insect, filmed in Indonesia, is seen wiggling its huge orange body up and down ...

So-called “murder hornets” in Europe probably descended from a single mated queen hornet that somehow arrived in France in 2004, according to a new study. The Asian or yellow-legged hornet (Vespa ...

A respected scientist has claimed that that life exists on Mars in the form of bizarre insect-like organisms resembling bees. Professor Emeritus William Romoser, an entomologist from Ohio University, ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover may be digging for evidence of alien life deep below the surface of Mars. But one US entomologist believes the evidence has been staring us in the face all along. Ohio ...

Insects outnumber us 200 million to one. They thrive in environments where humans wouldn’t last minutes. We mostly perceive them as pests - yet without bugs, entire ecosystems would collapse, crops ...

A tiny insect has gained viral fame after it has convinced hundreds of thousands of viewers that it is actually an alien. The tiny black-coloured insect is uncannily reminiscent of the Bug aliens from ...