The Sunnyside neighbourhood of Staten Island has proved to be a particularly popular stomping ground for the inch-long insects.
The public can report sightings of the beetles, inch-long insects that have black shells with white spots, and long antennas, by calling (800) 201-PARK.
So the 2-centimeter-long insects use plant stalks as personal phone lines.
After studying the ears of these tiny, 1-centimeter-long insects, researchers have created a device that could be used as a hypersensitive hearing aid, Popular Mechanics reports.
In 1999, she discovered that the Australian cycads she studied were pollinated by thrips, 1- to 2-millimeter-long insects commonly found in flowers.
These 3-millimeter-long insects aren't comparison shoppers, new research using ants tagged with tiny radio transmitters shows, but rather have some strict ideas of what they are looking for.
Stuck inside was a two-millimeter-long insect, known as a boganiid beetle.
900 miles: The astonishing roundtrip flight of dragonflies between India and the Maldives, announced in the Journal of Tropical Ecology in 2009, may be the longest insect migration on earth.
After a winter spent nestled amid the citrus leaves, the glassy-winged sharpshooter, a half-inch-long insect with a yellow speckled head, is rousing itself to look for a meal and a mate.
At 22 Bond, a six-unit condo building being developed by Richport Group and Second Development Services, the artist Federico Uribe's "Fly Mosca" — a 10-foot-long insect sculpture made from salvaged boat parts — will be installed on the facade next month, and a sculpture of cascading gold crowns by Roy Nachum will fill a street-level window.
