In Nepal's remote mountain district of Jumla, preparation for a family meal begins long before food reaches the cooking pot.

For all the insects that you see, there are dozens more zipping above your head. Many are too small to catch with the naked ...

At night in the Costa Rican cloud forest, a small team of international scientists switched on a light and waited. Soon, insects big and small descended out of the darkness. Moths with spots like ...

One redditor, thinking about this, asked in r/explainlikeimfive: What happens to insects that accidentally travel long ...

Insects are the dominant form of animal life on our planet, providing humans and wildlife with pollination, food, and recycling services but, despite concerns about population declines, little is ...

Hidden biodiversity crisis: Almost 90% of insect and arachnid species in North America lack conservation status, meaning their population trends and threats remain largely unknown. Why they matter: ...

Nearly 17 percent, or 22.5 million square kilometers, of the world’s land now falls within protected areas. Countries have established laws that safeguard these parcels of land—or in some cases, ...

Giant prehistoric insects may not have depended on high oxygen levels after all. Scientists now think something else must ...

When you want to learn about ecology, biodiversity, climate change or even humanity, you might start by popping open your favorite internet search engine. But thanks to entomology, some of the best ...

Around a quarter of people are scared of insects and/or spiders. This phobia is quite strange, really, as deep down, we know that most of these tiny creatures can’t hurt us, and yet we still can’t ...

Insects are strange, wondrous beings. Butterflies can see parts of the light spectrum that are invisible to human eyes and use these ultraviolet patterns to find their way to tasty plants. Moths use ...