In a first for nature and the planet, an insect has been given official legal rights. The revolutionary move comes from Peru, ...

An injured butterfly can now fly after a wing transplant from a dead insect. The monarch butterfly was brought to Sweetbriar ...

Understanding the evolution of insect mating behavior is essential for explaining how early insects adapted to life on land.

Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...

In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have found the answers to keeping them both alive A veery gets ready to rise into ...

Wilkes-Barre Academy’s kindergarten class recently visited Frances Slocum State Park to expand their study of insects. Kathy Kelchner, environmental education specialist at the park, provided the ...

They began blooming about mid-July. Since then, various species spread and filled the roadsides and fields with continuous flowers. Except for a white one that grows along the shores of Lake Superior, ...

Over the course of millennia, insects, spiders, and other arthropods in tropical forests have evolved in response to natural weather cycles like the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO). With climate ...

Researchers have discovered a giant stick insect living at high altitude in tropical North Queensland. Acrophylla alta is around 16 inches long and a strong contender for Australia's heaviest recorded ...

In a remote rainforest in Australia, home to deadly snakes, spiders and creepy-crawlies, scientists have discovered a new species of stick insect they believe is the heaviest ever found in the country ...

Fireflies, also known as lightning bugs, are beetles that thrive in warm, humid weather and communicate through bioluminescence. Fireflies are predatory insects that primarily feed on snails, slugs ...