The 17-year and 13-year periodical cicadas returned to the Chicago area this year, and I became the Sun-Times' de facto ...

Five years after the first sighting in Washington state, intense efforts have eradicated the bee-killing hornets from the ...

But "only a tiny fraction of insects spread disease or compete with us for our crops," he writes. Klein notes the role that ...

Entomologist Barrett Klein explores the many ways insects have affected human society, history, and culture in his new book ...

Insects are the most diverse group of organisms in the 3 billion-year history of life on Earth, and the most ecologically dominant animals on land. This book chronicles for the first time the complete ...

A monument in Enterprise, Alabama, dedicated to a beetle that tanked its town's economy by devastating its cotton crops. The ...

This was especially used against cockroaches. They are tempted by bait, placed in the little round dish in the middle, but ...

How do scientists know which insects can see color? John Jay Rouse | St. Cloud, Minnesota ...

University of Otago researchers unearthed these rare fossils in Miocene-era crater lake sediments at Hindon Maar near Dunedin ...

Forget astronauts. The real pioneers aboard China’s Tiangong space station aren’t human—they’re tiny, and they’re about to ...

Newly discovered insect fossils are so small they can barely be seen by the human eye but have been preserved in an 'extraordinary' way.