While many Westerners find the idea of eating beetles or crickets unappetizing, this view is actually a global outlier. For ...

Gardeners can protect their plants from common pests like aphids, whiteflies, and caterpillars using natural methods. Instead ...

When it comes to biodiversity, researchers and the public tend to focus on large-scale patterns. This overlooks a hidden but precious diversity: small, inconspicuous wasps, midges, flies, beetles and ...

Should you ever find yourself playing a trivia game on the topic of moths and butterflies, here are a few facts that might ...

A new study suggests that routine flea and tick treatments could expose native insects to high levels of toxins.

Becky Nichols, the park’s long-time entomologist, has dedicated her career to learning about and protecting lifeforms like bees, wasps, moths, and butterflies.

Flying insects are known to make a beeline for lights in the dark, as the saying goes, "like moths to a flame." Now, scientists have figured out why insects are so keen on light, but it's not because ...

It’s a question we’ve all wondered at some point in our lives: why do insects spend their evenings swarming around and bopping into artificial lights? Scientists have now come up with an answer using ...

Germany is exploring controversial defence research creating bioelectronic insects for surveillance. A startup, SWARM ...

Model organisms refer to non-human organisms that are used in the laboratory to understand the structure and function of animals by means of examining their biological processes. These are typically ...

A locust swarm likened to a “biblical plague” has hit Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, prompting official ...