A rare rainforest insect, Arota festae, starts life bright pink before slowly turning green, revealing a surprising ...

The world is an amazing place full of stories, beauty and natural wonder. Here you'll find 50 years worth of entertaining and thought-provoking natural history content. Dramatic, rare, and exclusive, ...

Early fall brings an amazing insect to our flower gardens across the United States. It is the White-lined Sphinx Moth (Hyles lineata), also called the Hawk Moth or Hummingbird Moth. No matter what ...

Billions of cicadas are expected to start swarming in more than a dozen states in the coming weeks, and while the strange occurrence may be a nuisance for many, scientists say the activities of the ...

TUCSON (KVOA) - With the record amount of rainfall we've seen, you might have noticed more insects out than usual. The Monsoon is an active time for insects, and that activity has kept the University ...

A closer look at seemingly drab, transparent insect wings has revealed realms of previously unappreciated color, visible to the naked eye yet overlooked for centuries. Until now, the wing colors of ...

A new study collected tens of thousands of insects from the rainforest canopy in the Brazilian Amazon and found that 60% of the specimens occur at a height of 8 meters (26 feet) and higher. Most of ...

Bugs! Yes, bugs. It's impossible to overstate how important (and how amazing!) insects are. They’re front and center this summer at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Bug Lab, a brand new ...

Since insects don’t qualify as charismatic species worthy of protection, such as rhinos, grizzlies and backyard birds, they don’t feature prominently in our thinking. “They’re the unsung heroes of ...

If you were around in the1970s and '80s, and depending on your age, you probably heard at one time or another about the loss of 75% of the elm trees in the United States. A fungus, the result of ...

With 1.7 million known species of insects to consider, the bombardier beetle might not be the world's most interesting insect. But it is very interesting. It deters would-be attackers, such as ants, ...