insects

A government minister has told MPs she is worried about the decline of bees and other insects but says there is a balance which needs to be struck with farming.

On comfortable beds of wood shavings inside multiple boxes, 3,600 Laricobius nigrinus beetles made overnight journeys last month ...

Air pollution has a worse effect on insects than previously thought, negatively affecting their health and reproduction systems even ...

The edible insect industry is booming. And although the thought of eating bugs may be unappealing, insect protein ...

Researchers from Melbourne University have discovered how Australia's Christmas beetles moderate their body temperature through the use of ...

Question: Our magnolia tree has sooty mold. We had the tree sprayed for the fungus, but it is ...

The Indonesian island of Borneo has been dubbed the “world’s lungs” because of its abundance of dense forests, ...

No matter whether a region is rocky and arid, humid and sandy, or lush and mossy, critters abound. ...

GILLAM, MB—The RCMP have been searching a remote area in northern Manitoba for more than a week trying ...

A study has found that the recent “polar vortex” might have killed 95 percent of stink bugs that ...

Four years ago, Gabi Lewis and Greg Sewitz, college roommates at Brown University, ordered two shoebox-sized containers crammed ...

Recent entomological research indicates that bed bugs prefer certain colors over others.  Researchers found that bed bugs prefer shelters that are ...

By Derek Henry, Holistic Health Coach for Healing the Body  The very thought of eating insects grosses people ...

Two ants of different species fighting and preserved in amber from 100 million years ago shine new light ...

Ants are actually liquid-like and solid-like at the same time, according to new research.

“Bugs: Outside the Box,” a display of interesting insects, is showing at the Canadian Museum of Nature.

In Afrikaans, they are called rysmiere, literally “rice ants,” although their name is more commonly rendered into English ...

Every year, people in the US throw away 2.5 billion plastic foam cups—and that’s just a fraction of ...

Rising temperatures in mountains around the world have led to a decline in flowers—which has in turn led ...

Efforts to protect our skin from mosquitoes on a summer nigh may work for a while, but not ...

An insecticide currently in development targets a specific gene so it kills only those bugs that threaten crops ...

Farmers should worry about how many individual wild bees they have pollinating their fields, not how many kinds ...

Since the early 20th century, an unheralded star of genetics research has been a small and essentially very ...

Scientists may have uncovered a natural way to save plants from attack by recreating a natural insect repellent.

A 508-million-year-old arthropod is thought to share a common ancestor with spiders and scorpions.

A condition called bilateral gynandromorphy means the butterfly is split down the middle: half male, half female.

A team went to investigate a predatory glow worm found in the Amazon.