It’s raining gemstones in the Okavango Delta. Yellow-billed hornbills lumber from their roosts, bills flaming amber. Little ...

Amid the usual parade of creeping horrors—super lice, mayfly plagues and a “troll-haired insect discovered in remote Suriname”—the exterminator news site PestWeb recently shared a piece of ...

Remipedes are crustaceans that are close relatives to insects. Jørgen Olesen / Natural History Museum of Denmark, Brett Gonzalez, Karen Osborn, GGI Shrimp look an awful lot like bugs. The ...

A team of ecologists from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) are leading an international initiative to investigate the decline of insect populations in the world's tropical forests. Insects ...

The semi-arid Kalahari Desert stretches over parts of Namibia, South Africa, and Botswana. It’s an ecological wonderland that ...

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.

There's nothing like coming home after a long day to the warm, glowing welcome of your front porch. Less enjoyable: being assaulted by the insects that are fluttering around the porch lights, just ...

The South African government has a new weapon in its fight against invasive water plants: the salvinia weevil, a tiny aquatic ...

A food recall has been issued for certain Fiorfiore brand spaghetti and linguine due to the presence of insects. “Do not use, sell, serve or distribute the affected products,” Canadian Food Inspection ...

The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (Icipe) and the Alliance of Biodiversity International and CIAT hosted a dining event titled “Biodiversity Bites: A Culinary Journey into ...