While many Westerners find the idea of eating beetles or crickets unappetizing, this view is actually a global outlier. For roughly two billion people worldwide, eating insects — known as entomophagy ...

When it comes to biodiversity, researchers and the public tend to focus on large-scale patterns. This overlooks a hidden but precious diversity: small, inconspicuous wasps, midges, flies, beetles and ...

Here’s how you can catch the Large Red Damselfly, a waterside insect in Heartopia.

She says when male and female insects look different, that is called sexual dimorphism – and this can happen in a variety of ...

State experts offer tips on how to identify insects that pose a threat to the region's trees and what to do if they are found ...

There is a long history of the mechanical thinning of forests in standard forestry operations. Thinning typically involves ...

Welcoming a family of wattlebirds into his Melbourne garden helped deter Andrew Herrick’s less amiable avian visitors – it’s a service he’s happy to pay for in apricots ...

In the warm, humid savannahs and forests of sub-Saharan Africa dwells a tribe of flower beetles in the genus Golianthus, named after the Biblical giant due to their huge size. Along with these ...

The famous synchronized fireflies are just one of many types of insects that fall under the purview of national park entomologist Becky Nichols.

A large shipment of exotic insects arrives as part of the expansion plans for a new zoo. The video documents the careful unboxing process, highlighting species that require strict temperature control, ...