(WJW) — An insect found on the side of a Walmart in Arkansas is exciting and mystifying researchers all while making history. The Polystoechotes punctata, commonly known as the giant lacewing, ...

Did you know that there are ten quintillion—or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000—individual insects on the planet? That means that for each and every one of us humans, there are 1.25 billion insects hopping, ...

Paleontologists, including researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN), have described the oldest insect larval feeding tunnels inside leaves, also known as leaf mines, along with ...

A fossilized ant and fly preserved in 99-million-year-old amber have revealed one of the oldest known examples of parasitic ...

entmain copy 39088019137645 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Contents 1. The evolution of ideas on insect metamorphosis -- 2. A spectacular diversity of forms and ...

Deep under the Jurassic rock beds of New South Wales, scientists discovered fossilized insects that push back the history of one of the world’s most hardy families of flies. These fragile traces, ...

Barrett Klein - Author of The Insect Ephipany: How Our Six-Legged Allies Shape Human Culture If you were asked to select five insects that have most profoundly altered humanity since Homo sapiens ...

Step outside on any day of the year, at any time of day, and something small, very small, with translucent wings or several legs or a thorax or compound eyes or antennae is probably, strike that, most ...

Austin Baker and his team at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County are leading an ambitious effort to DNA-barcode every insect species in California as part of the statewide CalATBI ...

BugFest returns with hands-on insect fun at the Natural History Museum of Utah. BugFest returns to the Natural History Museum of Utah with live bug encounters, hands-on exhibits, and family-friendly ...

In a remote corner of Peru’s central Amazon, a small, ancient pollinator has quietly rewritten legal history. Native ...

This accession consists of records documenting the development, transformation, management, marketing, and activities of the O. Orkin Insect Zoo. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, handbooks ...