A Natural History of the World's Spiders," author Ximena Nelson examines three species of spider with unusual diets — plants, ...

Where were the dull thwacks of flying insects bumping against the lightbulb? Even the tuneless orchestra of cicadas or crickets, whichever they were (no one was quite sure), had stilled its ...

Aug. 20, 2024 — Large-scale genomic analysis of darkling beetles, a hyper-diverse insect group of more than 30,000 species worldwide, rolls back the curtain on a 150-million-year evolutionary ...

Some of them are very strange-looking, aren't they? These bugs are called insects. Insects come in all different shapes and sizes. They live everywhere and there are millions and millions of them ...

The quality was so good that he could see the ommatidia, or individual units, of the insect’s compound eyes. “From that point on, I was drawn into macrophotography,” he writes in an email ...

A bite or sting from an insect can be a concern, especially if you're not sure what's caused it or it leads to unexpected or worrying symptoms. Our guide matches photos of stings to the different ...

If you’ve ever witnessed a spider climb out of your bathtub drain or chucked a particularly creepy crawly down the toilet in a moment of panic, you may have wondered if insects are capable of ...

The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) said on July 8 that it has approved 16 species of insects for consumption. The insects include various species of crickets, grasshoppers, locusts, mealworms and ...

"There were spongy moth egg masses everywhere. We wanted to begin some experiments, but there were too many invasive insects to proceed. There was no way they could be removed. We thought we were ...

In her first feature since 'Sunshine Cleaning,' Christine Jeffs returns with a film about public transparency and medical ...

Spotted lanternflies are on the rise in Ohio, with experts fielding more and more reports of the invasive insect across the state.Researchers with Ohio State University Extension said they have ...