When it comes to biodiversity, researchers and the public tend to focus on large-scale patterns. This overlooks a hidden but ...

Learn about how it is difficult for insects to stay active during the winter and what we can do in the meantime to support them until it is time for their return.

Dandelions aren't just weeds, they're important food sources for bumblebees, house finches, hover flies, numerous colorful ...

In this episode of Big Ideas from the team behind Deep Look, Niba explores how insects actually see the world — from the ...

Gardeners can protect their plants from common pests like aphids, whiteflies, and caterpillars using natural methods. Instead ...

From bears and bobcats to eagles and elk, 22,893 species have been documented so far in Great Smoky Mountains National Park — and nearly half of them are insects. Becky Nichols, the park’s long-time ...

The famous synchronized fireflies are just one of many types of insects that fall under the purview of national park ...

Many insects rely on heritable bacterial endosymbionts for essential nutrients that they cannot get through their diet. A new study, published in Nature Communications, indicates that the genomes of ...

According to Doug Pfeiffer, an entomology professor at Virginia Tech, the snow and cold actually help insects like spotted lanternflies and ticks.

Farmers in Louisiana are going toe-to-toe with some nasty enemies: apple snails that clog crawfish traps while laying millions of bubblegum-colored eggs and tiny bugs called delphacids that can wipe o ...