For most people, insects and death are two things that they want to avoid at all costs. For senior lecturer Dr Heo Chong Chin, however, they are two very important components of his job.

How the life cycles of blowflies help work out when someone died. 3. Insects were first used to solve a crime in 13th-century China The first documented case of insects being used in forensic work ...

Bill Sullivan, Indiana University (THE CONVERSATION) Insects do a lot more harm than ruining picnics. Some insects spread devastating diseases, while others cause staggering economic losses in ...

Genetic biocontrol entails genetically modifying insects to curb their populations. The idea to suppress an insect population by flooding it with sterile males has been around for decades. Since ...