A fearsome-looking insect commonly referred to as “ winged wētā ” may look like a flying wētā, but it is not a wētā at all.

Like other winged insects, beetles can fly away from danger—but unlike bees or dragonflies, beetles’ wings are tucked under rigid shell covers and need to be unfurled before flight ...

Millions of black and orange wings will flutter across the U.S. this spring, as the monarch butterflies make their annual trip from Mexico to Canada.

Find out when and why ants grow wings and swarm. Flying ants are known as alates. In the UK, particularly in urban areas, the winged insects you see are almost always the sexually mature queens and ...

Yiu is chairman of the Hong Kong Entomological Society and a long-time fan of the bizarre, ferocious and beautiful world of hard-winged bugs. He has spent the past 15 years studying insects with a ...