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 ...

The Butterfly House and Bug Zoo is the home to hundreds of invertebrates from around the world. Some of the butterflies they have came all the way from Mexico to Northern Michigan! With a visit at the ...

Tiny drones could one day crawl through collapsed buildings to help find survivors after earthquakes. These micro-robots, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

What Is a Palmetto Bug? The palmetto bug is a general name for many large outdoor (peridomestic) cockroaches. These insects may accidentally get carried or wander into homes. The term palmetto bug ...