If an experiment is repeated under similar conditions, the results should be the same. In reality, the situation is often different—scientists speak of a "reproducibility crisis," which affects ...

A recent study provides evidence that some results of behavioral experiments with insects cannot be fully reproduced. So far, possible reproducibility problems have been little discussed in this ...

In the Florida Keys, ecologists carried out a fumigation of mangrove islands to eliminate almost all arthropods. Following ...

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A team of paleontologists and ecological scientists from Nanjing University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and University College Cork, has found that it might be possible to estimate coloration for ...

Bees have long been celebrated for their intricate hives and precise navigation, but new research suggests their inner lives are even more sophisticated than many scientists assumed. In carefully ...

New research suggests humidity influences insect biological timing. Daily dry and humid swings synchronize circadian rhythms ...

This article was originally published by Undark. Bees have long impressed the behavioral scientist Lars Chittka. In his lab at Queen Mary University of London, the pollinators have proved themselves ...

A meadow grasshopper (Pseudochorthippus parallelus). This species is widespread across most of Europe and is commonly used as a model organism in evolutionary biology. If an experiment is repeated ...