Hold that pose! These famous insects are more than meets the eye. Delve into these fun facts about the praying mantis.

Ants and spiders and cockroaches, oh my! Summer is right around the corner and with summer brings bugs. From the north to the south, the warm weather brings bugs out of the woodwork (literally in some ...

More than half of all known animal species on Earth are insects — critters with a hard external skeleton, three pairs of jointed legs, antennae and a body divided into three segments (the head, thorax ...

A new title from Smithsonian Books highlights the diversity of Earth’s 10 to 100 million insect species Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History Featured insects include the Picasso ...

All insects belong to the phylum Arthropoda. But unlike other arthropods—like lobsters, spiders, or millipedes—insects have three pairs of jointed legs, segmented bodies, an exoskeleton, one pair of ...

Easily distracted by artificial light and pinging sounds, these little critters are antisocial, despite preferring to travel in large groups. They spend the majority of their lives courting one ...

TUCSON (KVOA) - With the record amount of rainfall we've seen, you might have noticed more insects out than usual. The Monsoon is an active time for insects, and that activity has kept the University ...

When you look up into the sky and realize that approximately 99.85 percent of the mass of the solar system is concentrated in the sun, it makes all of Earth's creatures—including us humans—look pretty ...