The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum said "Bug Squad" provides hands-on learning opportunities in a world inspired by fictitious ...

Discover the pink winged stick insect, Madagascar’s master of camouflage, its behavior, and endangered status.

Male insects, such as crickets and katydids, create sounds by rubbing their wings together, a process called stridulation. The sounds of these insects, which have existed for millions of years, can be ...

Scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) comprise a diverse assemblage of sedentary sap-feeding insects that exhibit remarkable morphological and ecological variation. Taxonomically they are divided into ...

Deception is everywhere in nature. Animals and plants routinely cheat, lie and manipulate for their own benefit. One example is mimicry, where one species (the mimic) has evolved to resemble another ...

Saproxylic insects, those that depend on decaying wood at some stage of their life cycle, underpin the diversity and functioning of forest ecosystems worldwide. By consuming, fragmenting and ...

Over 17 million insects migrate each year through a single mountain pass on the border between France and Spain, new research shows. Over 17 million insects migrate each year through a single mountain ...

An image showing two butterflys and a bettle with cracks in the background. The Conneticut State Muesum of Natural History and the Connecticut Entomological Society hosted a lecture by David Wagner ...

Entomophagy, the practice of eating insects, has a rich history in cultural contexts, with roots varying across different regions. Insects are considered a delicacy or staple food source due to their ...

Thanks to AI, you can now identify an insect from a photo in a matter of seconds. We rounded up the best apps doing this ...

Over 17 million insects migrate each year through a single mountain pass on the border between France and Spain, new research shows. University of Exeter scientists studied migrating insects in the ...