Above: lady beetles are being released into Purdue greenhouses as a biological control agent. Photo by Purdue University. Some insects are pests, but not all insects are bad. Overwhelmingly, the ...

Ancient Earth once buzzed with enormous dragonfly-like insects, and scientists long thought high oxygen levels made their ...

Exploring anywhere on Earth, look closely and you’ll find insects. Check your backyard and you may see ants, beetles, crickets, wasps, mosquitoes and more. There are more kinds of insects than there ...

In everyday language, many small creatures get labelled as “creepy-crawlies,” but scientifically, not all of them are insects. Insects belong to a specific biological group within the field of ...

Winter transforms the world around us, blanketing landscapes in snow and silencing the buzz of summer. Yet, while we may retreat indoors to escape the cold, insects face a far greater challenge: ...

Those two-headed flies swarming Houston right now are actually lovebugs, and this is why they're back.

Many insects, like this malachite butterfly, face critical heat stress under future temperatures. Photo by Kim Holzmann, CC BY Insects make up to 90% of all animal species on the planet, and most of ...