Tiny city gardens can be a haven for wildlife such as insects, a study of small city gardens in the Netherlands has found. The two factors that offer the biggest boost are having lots of plants and ...

Insects are unlike mammals and birds because they must generate their own heat (called ectotherms). Insects die when they are ...

The more we study sentience among nonhuman animals (animals) the more species are added to the sentience arena—the biodiversity of sentience is forever growing—and ethical questions about pain and ...

<br>Crickets are popular on menus in Thailand and other Asian countries and their calcium content makes them one of the more common insects eaten (or at least tried) in the ...

When I was little, I loved chasing butterflies. It’s fun to run after them as they flit and flutter. But I didn’t eat them. I asked my friend Rich Zack if that was an oversight. He’s an insect ...

Pretty as a picture: Entomologist Tawny Simisky shared a photo of an adult cicada, found May 23 at the Frances A. Crane Wildlife Management Area in East Falmouth. "The insect was released unharmed," ...

The Great Southeast Pollinator Census, formerly the Great Georgia Pollinator Census, will take place August 22-23. Participants observe flowering plants for 15 minutes and record the types of insects ...

Halloween might be over, but the swarms of multicolored, spotted “ladybugs” this fall can look like a scene from a horror movie. Illinois residents might have noticed an uptick in these harmless ...