When people think of bugs they generally think of gross pests that need to be kept at a distance. The farther away, the better. But insects, especially flying ones, have a strange, gross beauty to ...

To find out why insects gather around artificial lights, researchers filmed insects with a high-speed camera and used motion capture in an enclosure to trace their precise movements. Artificial light, ...

These slow-motion videos of winged insects taking off and flying will make you look at the airborne bugs in a whole new light. While insects are often unwelcome in our homes, they are, in many ways, ...

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This slow-motion video of 15 different species of insect taking flight reveals a bevy of weird, beautiful, and kind of gross liftoff methods. When people think of bugs they generally think of gross ...