Dragonflies might not be a threat to humans, but they're one of the deadliest flying insects on the planet when it comes to hunting other bugs.

A new study by a Moroccan-British research team, published in Annales de la Société entomologique de France, has identified a ...

A wētāpunga breeding programme that's been running for 15 years has shown signs of success, with 11,000 of the insects ...

Researchers from the Biointegrated Materials and Engineering group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) ...

Every survey method has an opinion about what counts as an insect. A trap does not sample the air. It samples whatever that particular trap is good at catching, and nothing else is ever in the data.

Because it is so common, decorators may not realize it can pose a danger to wildlife.

The success of a large-scale recovery program for wētāpunga/Little Barrier giant wētā, New Zealand's heaviest insect, has ...

For decades, evolutionary biologists have relied on two distinct libraries of genetic information to reconstruct the tree of ...

Insect herbivores destroy a staggering share of the world’s harvests every year, and the chemical arsenal deployed against ...

They are identifiable by their small teardrop-shaped bodies with cornicles, the two tail pipe-like structures that protrude ...

David George Gordon, who has died aged 76, found a culinary use for almost every insect or bug on the planet, from bluebottle ...

The brown recluse is an active hunter, spinning a web for place of shelter rather than a trap for unsuspecting prey. They are ...