The insects flying in circles around your porch light aren’t captivated by the light. Instead, they may have lost track of which way is up, high-speed infrared camera data suggest. Moths and other ...

Many insects live in fresh water, or close to the sea in salt marsh and beach habitats. There are also several species of water striders in the genus Halobates, which live on the ocean’s surface, far ...

Did you know that there are ten quintillion—or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000—individual insects on the planet? That means that for each and every one of us humans, there are 1.25 billion insects hopping, ...

It’s an observation as old as humans gathering around campfires: Light at night can draw an erratically circling crowd of insects. In art, music, and literature, this spectacle is an enduring metaphor ...

Researchers exploring Uganda’s Kibale National Park have discovered seven new species of frog-like leafhoppers. The tiny ...

My pre-K students always jump at the opportunity to explore nature, and they also love digging into bugs. I previously assumed that lessons about insects were only possible in the springtime, but that ...

Simply put, insects are vital for the survival of land-based life on this planet. Ellen Welti, a research ecologist with the Smithsonian’s Great Plains Science Program, says there are two groups of ...

In today’s world, questions about the existence of more complex life forms on Mars have become more prominent because there ...

Antique insect collections became exceedingly popular in the 1800s and early 1900s. They were often built as working reference libraries, containing pinned and labeled insects so that naturalists ...