New Zealand has taken great strides to protect the increasingly threatened Giant Wētā, one of the heaviest insects on Earth.

Have you ever heard of the iconic leaf insect? Worth hundreds—even thousands—of dollars, these fascinating bugs can ...

Antique insect collections became exceedingly popular in the 1800s and early 1900s. They were often built as working ...

When pill bugs roll into a tiny ball, the act looks far simpler than it actually is. Known as conglobation, a pill bugs’ ...

Faced with exploding global demand for protein and the growing environmental impact of animal farming, insects are emerging ...

A bacterial cell settles onto a nondescript surface. It is plump, healthy and functioning as it should. Nothing appears amiss ...

Sometimes, this means doing things that may shock us. One such behaviour is cannibalism. This means an animal eats another ...

In virtually every piece of land on Earth live springtails that have shaped the health of our planet for hundreds of millions ...

The ancient Egyptians and modern Egyptians alike sometimes name their newborns after festivals or even the day they were born ...

When we say that someone is a “fish out of water,” we sometimes mean to suggest that they are uncomfortable or out of their ...

But where you live determines more than just whether you see juncos year-round or seasonally; it also determines what type of ...