All of us were taught in our elementary school science class about monarch butterflies and their caterpillar stage that only eats milkweed leaves. Other insects also eat milkweeds, but they are hardly ...

A: The short answer is that these small black bugs in the house that aren’t fruit flies could be a number of different types of insects, from gnats to ants to flies. While gnat bugs are technically a ...

There are a lot of animals to love in the world… but insects are pretty low on most people’s lists. In fact, it’s said that 1 in 10 adults in the United States have entomophobia, a fear of insects.

Brightly-colored beetles or caterpillars feeding on a tropical plant may signal the presence of chemical compounds active against cancer and parasitic diseases, report researchers writing in the ...

While insects are often unwelcome in our homes, they are, in many ways, beautiful. Or, at the very least, fascinating to watch, especially when they fly around in slow motion. We know this because Dr.

Starting shortly, the New Jersey and Pennsylvania region will again be inundated by spotted lanternflies. The small insects start off as tiny black-and-white nymphs. They molt first to red-and-black ...

Using weather radar data, researchers estimated that roughly 100 trillion insects are flying above the United States on a ...

Flying insects are known to make a beeline for lights in the dark, as the saying goes, "like moths to a flame." Now, scientists have figured out why insects are so keen on light, but it's not because ...