Insects live in nearly every habitat, and it’s estimated that there are currently 10 quintillion insects on the globe. So far ...

Source: Steve Nicholls/with permission. Insects are amazing animals. They're all over the place and simply put, their well-being is crucial for the fate of our planet and all other animals, including ...

They’re nutritious, affordable, and always in demand. Learn how staffers prepare and deliver thousands of bugs each week to the animals living at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...

For decades, researchers have tried to understand how insect wings evolved. It seemed that none of the proposed explanations was complete. Now the question may finally have been answered. Using data ...

Are insects really declining as badly as previous studies have forecasted? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as an international team of more than a dozen researchers ...

It sounds like one of those facts you’d immediately Google just to confirm it’s real. But yes, some animals really do eat ...

Christine Picard’s search for a better bug to feed the world starts with dead bodies. Well, not the corpses themselves, but the blow flies, flesh flies, and other squirmy, wriggly things that wing ...

Discover how caddisfly larvae build protective cases from silk and debris and why they signal clean, healthy freshwater ...

Most animals end up with names that sound perfectly normal to us because we’ve heard them forever. But if you stop and think ...

A prominent animal documentarian has shared photos of an insect people are advised not to kill with their bare hands, warning ...