A fossilized ant and fly preserved in 99-million-year-old amber have revealed one of the oldest known examples of parasitic ...

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

The Natural History Museum of Denmark houses a unique collection of 70,000 pieces of amber from various time periods.

Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...

For human societies, insects are part of a shared ecology involving the gamut of symbiotic relations. Insects (and arthropods ...

Understanding the evolution of insect mating behavior is essential for explaining how early insects adapted to life on land.

Common European spittlebugs secretly spread a deadly bacterium, Xylella fastidiosa, threatening over 600 plant species.

Insects are strange, wondrous beings. Butterflies can see parts of the light spectrum that are invisible to human eyes and use these ultraviolet patterns to find their way to tasty plants. Moths use ...

Most people have done it. You see something small and wiggly on a plant, your brain says “bug = bad,” and your hand is ...

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

Lymbery is global chief executive of Compassion in World Farming, a former United Nations Food Systems Champion, and award-winning author. His latest book, co-edited with Michel Vandenbosch, is ...