A long-nosed fly from the Jurassic of Central Asia, reported by Russian paleontologists, provides new evidence that insects started serving as pollinators long before the emergence of flowering plants ...

Mosquitoes are commonly thought of as simple insects that land on skin and immediately plunge their mouthparts in to draw ...

The proboscis is a highly specialised feeding organ that has evolved independently across multiple insect orders to exploit floral and other liquid resources. It typically comprises a suite of ...

Manduca sexta hawk moth use their proboscis to smell the floral volatiles when they visit flowers, report scientists. They discovered the olfactory neurons involved in the perception of these ...

EMBARGOED UNTIL MONDAY, 29 JANUARY 2024, 21:00 CET (20:00 LONDON TIME, 15:00 U.S. EASTERN TIME) Have you ever seen a hummingbird hawk moth? When people encounter this moth for the first time, they are ...

Hummingbird Hawkmoth Exhibits Astonishing AbilitiesThe Astonishing Abilities of the Hummingbird Hawkmothby Frank Sherwin, ...

Just as when we humans reach for objects, the hummingbird hawk moth uses its visual sense to place its long proboscis precisely on a flower to search for nectar, according to a study by Konstanz ...

To learn about the plant life of long ago, scientists dig through layers of the Earth, looking for fossil clues. Like bits of fossilized pollen, or spores. "And that's where I come in." Timo van ...

Anyone who's seen Jurassic Park knows fossilized amber is lousy with trapped insects. While we can't extract their juices to make dinosaurs, many of these insects are preserved in pristine detail and ...

A white orchid from Madagascar, Wallace's support, the 'predicted' hawk moth of 1903, field photography, and the still-unresolved question of 'why it grew so long'In January 1862, the British ...

Learn more about these big-nosed monkeys. Find out why scientists think these primates have such outsized organs.