Insects

I do not like bugs. Creepy, many-legged things make my skin crawl. But as unpleasant as they are, insects are…

Attacks by giant hornets, relatives of murder hornets, on honeybee hives are absolutely horrifying. Worker hornets…

Keyhole wasps like to build their nests in tiny holes, including the openings of devices used to measure the speed…

The full contents of the first “murder hornet” nest discovered in the U.S. have been revealed, and they’re…

Last week—in what might somehow qualify as good news for 2020—bug scientists in Washington State reported…

Finally, some good news this year.

Entomologists in Washington have confirmed the existence of a nest of Asian giant hornets, more fondly known as…

The diabolical ironclad beetle, in addition to having one of the coolest names in the animal kingdom, boasts one of…

A species of fire ant can turn tiny grains of sand into a powerful tool for extracting food, in a clever design…

The West Coast is dealing with murder hornets entering a “slaughter phase.” Now the East Coast is getting in on the…

Every year, companies like GoPro manage to pack more and more functionality into smaller and smaller action cameras…

Fossils rarely retain evidence of an organism’s original color, but these 99-million-year-old amber fossils found in…

A brood of periodic cicadas not seen since 2003 is expected to emerge this year in parts of the United States.…

As much as I hate bugs with their little creepy wings and huge eyes, we need them. Yet there have been dire warnings…

East Africa is currently plagued with locust swarms of biblical proportions, but these swarms aren’t the act of an…

A grim report from the United Nations warns that unusually large swarms of locusts will be descending upon East…

Mantises are elite ambush predators, snatching their victims with a lightning-fast strike of their front limbs. But…

Police in Washington Township, Pennsylvania near Erie are searching for whoever left pill bottles containing live…

Ancient insects similar to modern lice parasitized dinosaurs by feasting on their feathers, as evidenced by a pair…

We really need to give insects more credit. They pollinate the shit out of our flowers. They break down dead things.…