Insects are everywhere, crawling across sidewalks, hanging out in our gardens, and even invading our homes. Despite inhabiting nearly every corner of the planet, many of the most common insect species ...

An international collaboration of researchers, including from the School of Life Sciences at the University of Warwick, have sequenced the genome of the milkweed bug, enabling scientists to understand ...

Standing in a tropical forest at night, you might hear what sounds like a small bird calling from high in the canopy. Listen ...

Berkeley — When engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, outfitted a six-legged robotic bug with wings in an effort to improve its mobility, they unexpectedly shed some light on the ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

A new title from Smithsonian Books highlights the diversity of Earth’s 10 to 100 million insect species Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History Featured insects include the Picasso ...

Q: While doing some alterations to my 25-year-old house, I found dead insects and small discarded wings in one of the walls that I ripped open. The insects look like large ants, but a friend says they ...

Chinch bugs are common pest species found in lawns, parks, and cemeteries. Adult chinch bugs are black-colored with white markings on the wings, while immature chinch bugs (nymphs) lack wings and have ...

The giant water bug is a predatory insect that hunts aquatic creatures. This bug has sharp mouthparts that deliver a painful bite to prey and humans. Many people call the giant water bug a “toe biter” ...