Looking at the question of how social behavior has developed over the course of evolution, scientists from the universities in Mainz and Basel have gained new insights from the study of earwigs.

Think hard the next time you squish an earwig. If that earwig had babies, you’ve just orphaned them, thereby producing bigger earwigs. One wouldn’t think that earwigs have much of a home life, but ...

For young animals depending on maternal care for survival, the loss of parents often leads to serious consequences and even death. The effect of the loss of parents among animals that could, in ...

Many members of the earwig insect family have two penises, but you’d never know it from observing their sex lives. Most earwigs are exclusively “right-penised”, which raises an important question: why ...

Looking at the question of how social behavior has developed over the course of evolution, scientists have gained new insights from the study of earwigs. "Young earwig offspring don't simply compete ...

Biologists from Mainz and Basel investigate food sharing among siblings in 125 earwig families Looking at the question of how social behavior has developed over the course of evolution, scientists ...