There are 1.4 billion insects for each one of us. Though you often need a microscope to see them, insects are “the lever pullers of the world,” says David MacNeal, author of Bugged. They do everything ...

Through pollination and feeding on all parts of plants, insects influence which plants thrive, which struggle, and even ...

Certain species of insect are known to cause damage to historic collections. For more than a decade insects have been identified in traps set out in English Heritage properties, the data from which ...

Many people eat insects around the world. There are dozens of American restaurants serving them, too. Our historic aversion can be traced to European colonists. Insects can be raised with much less ...

A firefighter works to extinguish a wildfire in Keratea, near Athens, on the weekend - Copyright AFP CLARENS SIFFROY A firefighter works to extinguish a wildfire in ...

It's commonly assumed that when insects are eaten by birds, they and their unborn young have no chance of survival. However, a team of researchers hypothesized that the eggs within insect bodies can ...

The flux of emerging aquatic insects from streams can provide a significant energy subsidy to riparian web-building spiders. However, despite the high temporality of aquatic insect emergence, the ...

The Natural History Museum of Denmark houses a unique collection of 70,000 pieces of amber from various time periods.