Explore the black beauty stick insect, a rare nocturnal insect from Peru with striking features and unique defenses.

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

Unusual insects are appearing in backyard spaces, and the video documents how quickly a small sighting can turn into a takeover. It focuses on bizarre behavior, unexpected numbers, and the way these ...

For more than two decades Dr. Richard Glatz has been on a one-man mission to catalog Kangaroo Island's insects. Since starting the collection in 1998, Richard has collected about 80,000 insect ...

A new study more than doubles previous estimates of how many distinct kinds of insects are currently inhabiting the planet.

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Insects are the most diverse group of organisms in the world. They also play a vital role in the functioning of all of the earth's ecosystems. In fact, there are more than 900,000 different species of ...

The “hive mind” of honeybees is often lauded as an exemplar that humans should strive to emulate. Much scholarship on the insects explores them as a “superorganism”—one animal as a collective, rather ...

Relic insect Embia savignyi under a microscope, female. Of the family Embiidae, feed on decaying plant remains, build silk passages along which they move.© shoma81/Shutterstock.com Not everything that ...