Recent estimates have come to the consensus that our planet hosts roughly six million species. But new research reveals that ...

Earth has a dizzying diversity of insects, with beetles alone making up 25 percent of all named animal species. The new ...

We gardeners understand the concept of separating. We routinely separate insects in our garden into “good” and “bad” columns.

A study in Costa Rica has big implications for extinction and conservation.

Many fungi lead triple lives—acting as deadly insect pathogens, decomposers in the soil, and helpful partners living inside ...

There may be three times as many species of insects than previously known, scientists warn - As many as 40 percent of the ...

All insects belong to the phylum Arthropoda. But unlike other arthropods—like lobsters, spiders, or millipedes—insects have ...

A project studying the impacts of biting insects in the Kitikmeot region is entering its third year. So far, a researcher ...

New calculations suggest that the insect species inhabiting our planet may be double or triple previous estimates.

After much discussion, the scientific community settled on an estimate of around six million species. This conservative ...

In a novel experiment at the University of Cincinnati, researchers recently isolated kissing bugs, fruit flies, mosquitoes ...

“For me, it was a road-to-Damascus type of moment,” James Truman, an entomologist, told me, recalling an encounter when he was sixteen. “My family had a summer place, a trailer, on the shores of Lake ...