Antique insect collections became exceedingly popular in the 1800s and early 1900s. They were often built as working ...

Faced with exploding global demand for protein and the growing environmental impact of animal farming, insects are emerging ...

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

Researchers from the University of Konstanz have studied how insect brains take in complex light stimuli and process them in ...

You’ve been eating it your whole life, and it’s perfectly OK.

Tap a small beetle on a table and it may suddenly collapse, tuck in its legs, and lie perfectly still. Many insects do this.

The University of Arizona's College of Science Lecture Series is set to explore the impact of scientific advancements on ...

Across the world, winter’s sudden freezes trigger sharp, gunshot-like cracks in trees, known as frost cracking. While ...

An array of animals and plants survive winter in the subnivium, nature’s igloo. But climate change is threatening this hidden ...

From sticky “flypaper” to lightning-fast suction, carnivorous plants have evolved various ingenious traps for finding the ...

Most people first notice pill bugs while lifting a flowerpot or turning over a log, then watching small gray roly polies curl ...

Microplastics have entered Antarctica’s soil ecosystem, subtly affecting its only native insect and revealing how far human ...