Research among adult visitors to the Montréal Insectarium reveals that many people will consider eating insects, especially ...

Colorado’s winter has been record-breaking in terms of lack of moisture and warm temperatures. While that might seem beneficial to insects’ survival, a lack of snow cover and early emergence from ...

The terms "bug" and "insect" are commonly used interchangeably in everyday language, yet scientifically, they refer to distinct categories of creatures. Insects belong to the vast class Insecta, ...

Insects are strange, wondrous beings. Butterflies can see parts of the light spectrum that are invisible to human eyes and use these ultraviolet patterns to find their way to tasty plants. Moths use ...

It turns out that while all bugs are insects, all insects aren’t bugs. So if you’re an insect, I guess maybe you get a little tee’d off if some well-meaning six-year-old picks you up and calls you a ...

For all the insects that you see, there are dozens more zipping above your head. Many are too small to catch with the naked ...

Symbiosis, or the interaction of two unalike species, is common and often necessary for survival. In insects, symbiotic ...