During winter, we take measures to protect ourselves from the cold, like wearing extra clothes or staying inside more. Some insects take similar precautions to survive.

There’s a whole period in the evolution of modern insects that’s pretty much a blank, thanks to a gaping hole in the fossil records. The so called Hexapoda Gap runs from 385 million years ago to 325 ...

Honeybees account for about 80 percent of all insect pollination, so the term “busy bee” is highly accurate! In addition to what they do for agriculture, bees are pretty amazing insects. Honeybees ...

LAWRENCE -- The idea of bringing creepy-crawly insects into your home and setting them out on the coffee table could make most people bug out. But, here's an exception. A richly illustrated book on ...

Through stunning, high magnification photographs and clear explanatory text, insect expert Chinery (a British naturalist, lecturer and author of several Collins Guides to insects) introduces readers ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — When 10-year-old Peyton Mowry handled a Vietnamese walking stick at the Michigan State University Bug House, screaming was not her first reaction. “It tickled,” she said as ...

Scientists use cutting edge scanning technology to reconstruct 'fossil monster' that lived half a billion years ago. The creature's soft anatomy was well-preserved, allowing it to be imaged almost ...

Amazing insects, like death head cockroaches, giant centipedes and rhinoceros beetles, are the latest additions to the Butterfly Atrium at Hershey Gardens in Hershey. They are the residents of the new ...

Bryan Fisher gingerly removed a slat from the top of one of his bee hives. “Let’s see if we can find the queen in here,” he said as he rotated the slate. Hundreds of writhing workers — docile from ...