A 99-million-year-old wasp species used a Venus flytrap-like abdomen to capture prey and may represent a new insect family, ...

While we regularly hear about population declines in ‘charismatic’ insects like bees, huge data gaps make it hard to protect ...

Thousands of new species are found each year. Here are three of our most recent eye-catching stories. The new species was ...

In this particular exhibition at the Staten Island Museum, even the pink of the walls comes from bugs — in the form of lac, a ...

Skin flakes are hard to digest. It’s like eating hair, or feathers. So dust mites have powerful digestive enzymes to break the skin down. Those enzymes turn up in dust mite poop. And let’s just say ...

A recent study showed butterfly populations decreased by 22 percent since 2000. Find out what flowers you can plant to ...

The lower Eagle River water is off color. It is not quite muddy but more than milky — depending on what stretch of river you ...

Bugs also undergo a process known as incomplete metamorphosis, where the offspring look similar to the adults but without ...

Whether they’re opening for takeoff, spreading wide for a lazy soar or flapping to brake for landing, bird wings make flying look almost effortless.

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