In the summer of 2022, social media users shared a photograph of a rather elaborate-looking insect with beautiful iridescent wings. The picture prompted questions about whether it accurately ...

Their abdomen is a bright red underneath, with reddish margins on the front of the wings ... use their piercing mouths to draw sap from trees. Boxelder bugs come in two different ages ...

The bugs spend most of their lives beneath the Earth and can lie there for 17 years. They only venture above ground level to shed their ugly larva shells and sprout wings to become adults.

Berkeley — When engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, outfitted a six-legged robotic bug with wings in an effort to improve its mobility, they unexpectedly shed some light on the ...