A fly is going about its day, buzzing here, buzzing there—but then, it starts behaving weirdly. Its movements become sluggish ...

In fact, you’ve probably even tasted this color. And it all comes from an insect deeply rooted in the history of Oaxaca, Mexico: cochineal. Instead of blood, most insects and arachnids have hemolymph, ...

I n 2023, researchers uncovered new insights into the eerie world of fungi that transform insects into "zombies." Carolyn ...

Insects are being spotted in massive numbers clustering in the windows of Ontario homes, looking to find their way inside.

Chironomids (midges) are highly sensitive to PFAS and >95% of all their hemolymph proteins are Hbs. Using a combination of in silico, in vitro, and in vivo tools, we will test the overarching ...

ACCORDING to a popular myth there is a baffling connexion between the flowering of bamboos and the appearance of rat hordes which spread around destroying crops and eating chickens, puppies and ...

The little honey bee is a unique little insect. Her anatomy was engineered, developed and equipped to do the things necessary ...

For example, the Pacific Yew tree produces a substance which is used in cancer treatments. Another example is a substance found in horseshoe crabs, hemolymph, that is used in leukemia treatments. Lyme ...

Manufacturers disinfect the crabs and drain some of their hemolymph—the crab equivalent of blood, which happens to be blue. They then isolate and lyse blood cells, producing a reagent called ...

In theory the doctored sugar water should not affect the bee. But when mites drink the bees’ hemolymph, the mites will also take in RNAi—and it should affect them. It’s as if you could kill ...

This is when the bug will release a slightly orange, odorous liquid called "hemolymph" onto their predators. If humans are exposed to large amounts of this liquid, especially if they are crushing ...