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 ...

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

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.

Lampyridae is a family of insects in the beetle order Coleoptera. They are winged beetles, and commonly called fireflies or lightning bugs for their conspicuous crepuscular use of bioluminescence ...

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 ...