Insects bite, sting, irritate, and can transmit disease — but they also pollinate flowers, contributing significantly to food production. Are they friends or foes? Join McHenry County College’s next ...

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Pre-K students at Crockett Elementary were able to get an up-close look at some creepy-crawlies recently. The kids were visited by Texas A&M Forest Service entomologists who ...

Entomologists say insects are declining at alarming rates — one major study estimates we’re losing 2% in total insect biomass every year. Now, the National Academy of Sciences is preparing to embark ...

We've all noticed how much insects love to fly around lights. But why? Many answers have been proposed; some have suggested that insects have a direct attraction to the light itself; others have said ...

Johnson Elementary School students can watch how worms live in the ground in handmade worm habitats. RACINE — Students in Heidi Vlach’s second-grade summer school reading class at Johnson Elementary ...

About 140 visitors to the Cape Girardeau Conservation Campus Nature Center's recent "Insect Mania" learned about seven Missouri insects that sting and bite at an event that focused on insect pests.

All around us, insects are speaking to each other: jockeying for mates, searching for food, and trying to avoid becoming someone else’s next meal. Some of this communication is easy to spot—like the ...

More than 1,000 third graders from across Tulsa spent Thursday learning about insects up close during the Exploring Insects event hosted by Tulsa Master Gardeners and OSU at Expo Square. TULSA, Okla. ...

More than 60% of Australia's known insects are unnamed and a mystery to science. Of an estimated 500,000 Australian species, roughly half are insects, but many aren't categorized. A group of ...

Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode The Birds and the Bees. Insects experience the world very differently from humans--but they still have a lot to teach us. Behavioral ecologist Marlene Zuk explores ...

The more we study sentience among nonhuman animals (animals) the more species are added to the sentience arena—the biodiversity of sentience is forever growing—and ethical questions about pain and ...