At the Arizona Insect Festival on Oct. 1, there were many booths around the Slot Canyon Cafe and the rest of the Environment and Natural Resources 2 courtyard, each crowded with children and adults ...

Scientists have successfully extracted DNA from insects trapped in amber. But before you start dreaming of a certain park, there’s one huge caveat to mention – any creatures you might revive from this ...

From butterflies to grasshoppers, many delicate little things that run our world are in dire trouble. Not just in regions where human activity directly affects the landscape, but even in remote, human ...

Insects and other invertebrates are the arena for the evolution of new infectious diseases in humans, new research shows. Insects and other invertebrates are the arena for the evolution of new ...

Did you know that there are ten quintillion—or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000—individual insects on the planet? That means that for each and every one of us humans, there are 1.25 billion insects hopping, ...

Even in areas relatively undisturbed by human activity, insect populations are on the decline, with climate change as a likely culprit. That's the finding of new research from the University of North ...