A farmer notices an unfamiliar insect on a leaf. Is this a pollinator? Or a pest? Good news at harvest time? Or bad? Need to ...

Protecting them Artificial lights at night are causing serious disruption to insects on the night shift. Insects often become ...

A battle of beetles has won this contest celebrating close-up, macro, and micro photography revealing amazing hidden wonders ...

Adult fireflies do not eat but firefly larvae mostly eat snails, which helps keep snail populations under control. A Christmas beetle resting on a leaf during the day. Tanya Latty Beetles in the ...

That farmer can snap a picture, use a smartphone or computer to feed the photo into a web-based application called InsectNet ...

Tropical trees like plumeria do not thrive in most parts of the United States because they require hot and humid conditions.

The engineering and defensive skills of red wood ants help the endangered species transcend its small stature in the natural world.

When leaf beetle larvae begin to munch on the leaves of goldenrods, the plants emit volatile organic compounds (VOCs) which signals to the insects that the plant is damaged and that they should ...

For decades scientists assumed these insects looked so much like orchids as a form of camouflage. But they were wrong. They ...