A North Carolina State University study published online this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that examining an insect's "family tree" might help predict a "cousin" ...

Over 120 years ago, James May was hunting bugs in Brazil; using beer to get butterflies drunk before catching them. “It’s ...

How many legs do insects have? Insects have six legs. These legs are attached to the central part of an insect's body, the thorax, and they are controlled by muscles in the thorax. Insects have hearts ...

Biodiversity loss is now widely recognized as a major threat to planetary health 1,2,3. Halting the loss requires that the basic building blocks of biodiversity are known, so that changes can be ...

Insects are everywhere – in backyards, balconies and the park down the street. In fact, numerically speaking, insects dominate the Earth with more than 5.5 million species. An estimated 10 quintillion ...