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

Camper Ceceila Ross winces at the stink bug crawling up her arm at the Insect Safari camp at the Alaska Botanical Garden on June 21, 2023. (Maria Koop/Alaska Public Media) Lunchtime just finished, and ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The approach of spring means many things, but at Purdue University's annual Bug Bowl on April 17-18, the buzz is all about insects. Bowl events include cricket spitting, ...

They’re creepy. They’re crawly. And in Alaska, they’re the bane of any fishing expedition. But bugs — even mosquitos — are also a vital part of the animal kingdom. That’s something kids learned ...

Associate Professor and Curator of Insects, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida Insects are everywhere – in backyards, balconies and the park down the street. In fact, numerically ...

The first BMSB specimens in the U.S. were collected in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1998, but the bugs likely arrived from their native East Asia a few years prior to that. (They may have come to the ...

Winter transforms the world around us, blanketing landscapes in snow and silencing the buzz of summer. Yet, while we may retreat indoors to escape the cold, insects face a far greater challenge: ...

Insects are usually small and easy to miss. But some are much bigger than you’d expect. These flying insects don’t scare with their speed or strength– they stand out just because of how large they are ...