Late fall is the time when we like to bundle up, grab a blanket and get cozy in a nice warm place in preparation for winter. Insects are no different; they too like to seek winter shelter to protect ...

Midsummer is a time for flying insects. They can be found deep in the woods and flitting around ponds and rivers, but wherever they may be, they have to land eventually. Recently, a few other people ...

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

The autumnal equinox, the day when the earth’s tilt moves the sun across the equator, falls between Sept. 21 and 24. This year the days will be shorter than the nights for six months starting Sept. 23 ...

(To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and business decisionmakers, click here.) Global food production accounts for one-third of all greenhouse-gas emissions, according ...

Bugs and scientists have long been oddball allies in the effort to understand decomposing bodies, but there's a catch. When a person or animal dies, insects can detect that death faster than humans ...

In a remote corner of Peru’s central Amazon, a small, ancient pollinator has quietly rewritten legal history. Native ...

In his fierce, unending war against the insects, man is getting exactly nowhere. There may be as many as 2,500,000 species of insects infesting the world, and in the U.S. alone about 10,000 of them ...

The consumption of edible insects, a common part of the diet of some Asian and Latin American countries, is tentatively ...

Scientists are combining artificial intelligence and advanced computer technology with biological know how to identify insects with supernatural speed. This opens up new possibilities for describing ...