Akito Y. Kawahara is an associate professor and curator of insects at the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida. Megan Ennes is an assistant curator of museum education at the ...

Aubrey Goscha, 11, holds a luna moth, a recent addition to her entomology collection. Goscha has been a member of the Clinton Eagles 4-H Club for about five years. Above are the butterflies and moths ...

Camper Ceceila Ross winces at the stink bug crawling up her arm at the Insect Safari camp at the Alaska Botanical Garden on June 21, 2023. (Maria Koop/Alaska Public Media) Lunchtime just finished, and ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A local artist is using intriguing photographs of magnified insects to increase awareness of the role of pollinators in nature. Artist Kelly Eckel is offering a workshop for kids ...

So-called "holometabolous" insects will be in the focus of their attention. All insects that undergo complete metamorphosis from larva to pupa belong to this group of insects. "With more than 800,000 ...

On April 23, former President Bill Clinton used Twitter to make an announcement that, given the current political climate, could have been alarming: "BREAKING: We just learned that the @ClintonCenter ...

Insects creep out some people simply by being themselves. Now imagine big versions of them. Massively big, as in up to 600 times larger than their actual size. That’s the concept behind “The World of ...

They’re creepy. They’re crawly. And in Alaska, they’re the bane of any fishing expedition. But bugs — even mosquitos — are also a vital part of the animal kingdom. That’s something kids learned ...

CARSON CITY -- First off, kids, black widow spiders have eight legs, and that makes them arachnids, not insects, so they are out of the running in the contest to pick Nevada's official state insect.