In this particular exhibition at the Staten Island Museum, even the pink of the walls comes from bugs — in the form of lac, a coloring produced by scale insects (it’s the same natural dye used as ...

The estimate of 5.5 million species of insects is interesting. What’s even more remarkable is that because scientists have ...

Playgrounds can host a variety of natural wonders, and of course, kids. Now some students are not just learning about insects ...

Bed bugs are the seasoned hitchhikers of the insect world. They’ve been around for thousands of years, and once settled, these small reddish-brown critters can be hard to get rid of. They’re tiny and ...

Researchers named the parasitic creature Sirenobethylus charybdis —both after the sirens of Greek mythology that lured in ...

All insects are arthropods ... Each species has a unique scientific name – like Bombus griseocollis for the brown-belted bumblebee – so scientists can be sure which species they’re talking ...

The wasp's flaps and teeth-like hairs resemble the structure of the carnivorous Venus flytrap plant, which snaps shut to digest unsuspecting insects. But the design of the wasp's getup made ...

For more than two decades Dr. Richard Glatz has been on a one-man mission to catalog Kangaroo Island's insects. Since starting the collection in 1998, Richard has collected about 80,000 insect ...

Entomophobia is an irrational and persistent fear of bugs. Those with a fear of insects may go to great lengths to avoid them, or they will experience significant distress when encountering an insect.

Playgrounds can host a variety of natural wonders – and, of course, kids! Now some students are not just learning about ...

Many insect species are going extinct All of this has potentially huge implications for our own human species. Insects affect us in countless ways. People depend on them for crop pollination ...