So if you’ve lived through the early ’90s you’ve heard the song Girls & Boys by Blur. It seemed like a modern song at the time, but the African bat bug got there long before the band did. In this ...

Bug experts are tracking ‘bat bugs’, small parasites that look like bed bugs but ride on bats and are increasingly showing up in peoples’ homes.University of Nebraska-Lincoln bug expert Barb Ogg said ...

NIPAH VIRUS has claimed one more victim, bringing the death toll of the fatal disease to 17 in Kerala. The deadly bat bug can manifest itself in infected people for a number of days, making it ...

Sexual relationships between humans may be complicated, but they are nothing compared with the bizarre sex life of the African bat bug, the British weekly New Scientist reports. Renowned among ...

Members of a third new bat species. A colony of what is apparently a new species of Hipposideros from an abandoned gold mine in Western Kenya. (Photo courtesy of B.D. Patterson / Field Museum) ...

Call of the wild I'm bad, brown and a hungry bat, so leave that bug alone. While the human ear may not be able to hear it, that is the message male big brown bats send out to rivals as they home in a ...

Bioengineers have developed a new class of bionic 3D camera systems that can mimic flies' multiview vision and bats' natural sonar sensing, resulting in multidimensional imaging with extraordinary ...

Japan is home to the world's largest — and most painful — hornet. With a wingspan of up to three inches, the Asian giant hornet can look more like a tiny flying bird. And if you're a bird — or a bee — ...

The scenario has happened countless times before. A pesky fly interrupts a dinner party. Brad, the club’s resident tennis pro and notorious alcoholic, takes to his feet, Prince racket in hand, and ...