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 ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Deep in the Waiʻanae mountains of Oʻahu lives one of the strangest creatures ever discovered. And it’s not what you’d expect. It’s a caterpillar. But it doesn’t eat leaves. It doesn ...

The Royal Entomological Society’s Photography Competition highlights the wonder and diversity of the six-legged creatures that crawl, swim and fly across the planet Carlyn Kranking - Associate Web ...

Some wasps are unsettling, and then there are species so extreme that even the scientists who study them reach for words like ...

Wayward insects wreaked chaos at a Michigan library over the weekend after they were discovered crawling in a return bin. Royal Oak Public Library announced the incident in a Facebook post on Saturday ...

Centipedes are not insects either. But centipedes are more closely related to insects than worms are. And that is because ...

The latest ArtScience Museum exhibition features 37 high-magnification portraits of insects captured by renowned British ...

Warmer weather leads to an increase in insect activity, with some species seeking shelter and food inside homes. Homeowners can prevent infestations by sealing cracks, maintaining cleanliness and ...

Watching insects live their weird lives is endlessly amusing. It used to be only within the grasp of production crews with big budgets to capture such vivid detail. Nowadays, all you need is a Canon ...