Watch a small beetle use amazing strength to escape a closed venus fly trap. I must admit, I was on the edge of my seat ...

Playgrounds can host a variety of natural wonders, and of course, kids. Now some students are not just learning about insects ...

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Thai edible insect business is booming. Can it inspire the world? Growing up in Thailand’s northeastern Isan region, Suwimon ...

Three species of cicada that only emerge once every 17 years are gearing up to spring to the surface in droves.

Next time you’re outside, say a silent thanks for the many unsung insect pollinators helping to keep our ecosystems healthy.

The suspected shooters drove away after the attack and remain at large. Nobody was killed ... gun shot wounds while the rest were injured by flying glass. In an update Sunday, police said seven ...

Animal rights group Wakker Dier has written to farm minister Femke Wiersma calling for better protection for insects, billions of which are bred and killed in Dutch factories every year. Wakker Dier ...

Beetles in the scarab family are often active at night. Large numbers of Christmas beetles (Anoplognathus spp) flying around porch lights used to be a common sight, but numbers appear to be in decline ...

Palaeontologists from East Tennessee State University and the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, have just revealed the existence of a new fossil specimen belonging to a giant flying squirrel.

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