Sharpshooters may be small, but their pee is mighty — yes, you read that right. As you’ll see in this video, these small insects come with their own built-in, high-pressure hydraulic systems, giving ...

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An insect researcher is speaking out about an insect he encountered at an Arkansas Walmart that he misidentified for several years but recently discovered was a rare specimen from the Jurassic period.

Tiny insects known as sharpshooters excrete by catapulting urine drops at incredible accelerations. By using computational fluid dynamics and biophysical experiments, the researchers studied the ...

A giant bug found on the wall of an Arkansas Walmart turns out to be a very rare insect not seen in the area for decades. A giant, flying bug plucked from the outside wall of an Arkansas Walmart has ...

Similarly, for insects that rely on the insulating properties of the snowpack, low-snow winters can expose them to killing temperatures. And, as with the cooling fudge, if a supercooled insect comes ...

Few threats are more damaging to a vineyard or citrus grove than a blight of sharpshooters. The half-inch-long insects are destructive agricultural pests because of their unquenchable thirsts and ...

Tiny insects known as sharpshooters excrete by catapulting urine drops at incredible accelerations. Their excretion is the first example of superpropulsion discovered in a biological system.

On a routine trip to an Arkansas Walmart to pick up milk, a university scientist made a historically buggy discovery. Michael Skvarla, director of Penn State University's Insect Identification Lab, ...

Saad Bhamla was in his backyard when he noticed something he had never seen before: an insect urinating. Although nearly impossible to see, the insect formed an almost perfectly round droplet on its ...