According to a new study by the University of Würzburg, Bavarian meadows are the most monotonous insect habitats. Surprisingly, fields and settlements often offer more diversity than grassland.

They found microplastics where almost nothing lives. The discovery inside Antarctica’s insect changes everything.

A dead nest belonging to a yellow-legged hornet has been found near Wrexham, making it the first confirmed discovery of the ...

Remains of a kharpa beetle, which customs officials said is "the world's most invasive grain pest," were identified among a ...

Iceland was one of the only mosquito-free places in the world, at least according to its records. Not anymore. By Amelia Nierenberg Iceland lost the distinction this month of being one of the last ...

This important work by Diallo et al. substantially advances our understanding of the chemosensory system of a non-hymenopteran eusocial insect by identifying the first olfactory receptor for the trail ...

A Massachusetts man believed he was stung by an invasive Asian needle ant, but an entomologist said the ant the man saved in a baggie was misidentified and was actually a harmless species. Experts say ...

About 70% of the world’s crop production relies on pollinator insects for survival. That makes it helpful to know how many pollinators are out there. As a citizen scientist, you can participate in ...

The surefire way to know whether it’s a sweat bee or a corn fly buzzing around is if it stings. The halictid bee stings, but the corn fly, also called a hover fly, does not. “They’re mimics of bees, ...

Beetles are the largest order of insects. The 400,000 types of beetles on Earth make up about 25 percent of all animal species! You probably see them all the time – from ladybugs to fireflies to ...