Summertime comes with lengthy days, warm sunshine, beach visits, and beautiful greenery in the forest. However, summertime also comes with mosquitos, biting flies, and other insects that we consider ...

Australia is known for its exceptional biodiversity. The country separated from the supercontinent Gondwana nearly 135 ...

The dynamics between insects and plants in degraded ecosystems offer unique insights into how anthropogenic pressures and environmental changes alter traditional ecological relationships. In these ...

Nymphs (juvenile spotted lanternflies) are black with white spots, then become red with black spots as they develop. Adults are roughly 1 inch long and half-inch wide. Their brown forewings have black ...

It's OK to bug out. The North Museum of Nature and Science unveiled its latest exhibition, and this time it's themed around ...

We ignore most insects that cross our path. We swat away flies, marvel at butterflies, and dash away from angry wasps. But one insect that has been around for about 300 million years is one of ...

Associate Professor and Curator of Insects, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida Insects are everywhere – in backyards, balconies and the park down the street. In fact, numerically ...

(NEXSTAR) – Earth’s insects are faring poorly. That’s according to a new special issue from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science released Tuesday. According to the report, Earth is ...

Tim Newbold receives funding from the Royal Society, UK Natural Environment Research Council grants NE/R010811/1 and NE/V006533/1, ESRC grants ES/P011306/1 and ES/S008160/1, and from the Leverhulme ...

World Bog Day was celebrated around the world on July 23. I celebrated by hiking to an Alaskan bog, or muskeg, as they are colloquially known. This particular bog surrounded a small lake that was ...

California has a way of exaggerating things—mountains, deserts, and egos. But its insects? They take excess to another level.