Earth has a dizzying diversity of insects, with beetles alone making up 25 percent of all named animal species. The new ...

Explore the black beauty stick insect, a rare nocturnal insect from Peru with striking features and unique defenses.

Unusual insects are appearing in backyard spaces, and the video documents how quickly a small sighting can turn into a takeover. It focuses on bizarre behavior, unexpected numbers, and the way these ...

As spring unfolds and temperatures rise, so does insect activity. While some insects like bees are beneficial, others, such as ticks and mosquitoes, are less welcome. And this year, experts predict we ...

Amber from the Kachin region of Myanmar has preserved a wealth of fossils, offering insights into the diversity of the Cretaceous fauna of a 100-million-year-old forest ecosystem. The site continues ...

A new estimate of insect species globally finds that there may be 8 million to 14 million more species than people thought, ...

A new study more than doubles previous estimates of how many distinct kinds of insects are currently inhabiting the planet.

Insects are the most diverse group of organisms in the world. They also play a vital role in the functioning of all of the earth's ecosystems. In fact, there are more than 900,000 different species of ...

The “hive mind” of honeybees is often lauded as an exemplar that humans should strive to emulate. Much scholarship on the insects explores them as a “superorganism”—one animal as a collective, rather ...

Relic insect Embia savignyi under a microscope, female. Of the family Embiidae, feed on decaying plant remains, build silk passages along which they move.© shoma81/Shutterstock.com Not everything that ...