A new paper highlights over 500 interconnected factors contributing to the global decline of insect populations. Insects are ...

Shrimp look an awful lot like bugs. The exoskeletons, jointed legs and compound eyes of both groups of living things give ...

Spring officially begins on March 20, 2025, bringing warmer temperatures, blooming flowers — and an influx of bugs to metro Phoenix. As the Sonoran Desert heats up, many insects emerge from ...

If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. How many types of insects are there in the world? – Sawyer, age 8, Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina ...

The Brood XIV cicada is set to appear in Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, said Gene ...

So, that's where we could end up in an insect-less world. Starving to death while drowning in a sea of poop and corpses. EDITOR'S NOTE: This video was originally published in August 2019.

While we regularly hear about population declines in ‘charismatic’ insects like bees, huge data gaps make it hard to protect the rest. Despite our outsized impact on the planet, humans are not ...

The 2024 Report on the Health of Colorado’s Forests showed that bark beetles and other invasive insects expanded their forest footprint in a hot and dry 2024. The type of tree most affected was ...

The realization that bugs were close relatives of crustaceans took almost a century of curiosity to uncover. Paleontologist Joanna Wolfe of Harvard University, one of the authors of the 2023 study ...