Imagine waking up tomorrow to complete silence. No buzzing bees, no chirping crickets, no butterflies drifting through ...

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

They’re nutritious, affordable, and always in demand. Learn how staffers prepare and deliver thousands of bugs each week to the animals living at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...

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

South Carolina is heading into the thick of summer just as conditions become ideal for an unwelcome seasonal surge of bed bugs. And two Palmetto State cities are among the ones with the most in the ...

A Tiny Brain with Big Calculation Skills Published in April 2026 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, ...

For 40 years, we thought Earth was home to six million insect species. Turns out, it could be three times that.

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

Scientists are trying to figure out which insect species are struggling, what it means for ecosystems and, ultimately, how it will impact people. BURLINGAME, Kansas — Without dung beetles, rancher ...

Psychology says people who are scared of cockroaches, bugs or house lizard aren't always reacting without reason. Psychology ...

Researchers from the University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute and Texas A&M University recently gathered their resources to investigate the potential of vector-borne transmission of Chagas ...

It’s pretty commonly known, and not very startling, that free-ranging cats eat birds and small rodents. But the degree to ...