Saad Bhamla was in his backyard when he noticed something he had never seen before: an insect urinating. Although nearly impossible to see, the insect formed an almost perfectly round droplet on its ...

A STUDY of the excretory system of the blood-sucking bug, Rhodnius prolixus, has led to the formulation of the following theory of uric acid excretion in that insect: ...

Tiny insects known as sharpshooters excrete by catapulting urine drops at incredible accelerations. By using computational fluid dynamics and biophysical experiments, the researchers studied the ...