Many insects live in fresh water, or close to the sea in salt marsh and beach habitats. There are also several species of water striders in the genus Halobates, which live on the ocean’s surface, far ...

My pre-K students always jump at the opportunity to explore nature, and they also love digging into bugs. I previously assumed that lessons about insects were only possible in the springtime, but that ...

The insects flying in circles around your porch light aren’t captivated by the light. Instead, they may have lost track of which way is up, high-speed infrared camera data suggest. Moths and other ...

Pro-environmental behavior increases among school students who participate in insect-related citizen science projects, according to new research. Pro-environmental behaviour increases among school ...

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, ...

Entomologist Torsten Dikow, a leading expert on assassin flies, is working to connect a global community of researchers through the democratization of insect science Emma Saaty Torsten Dikow overlooks ...

Study finds 88% of North American insects haven’t been assessed for extinction risk In A Nutshell The conservation status of ...

A recent study provides evidence that some results of behavioral experiments with insects cannot be fully reproduced. So far, possible reproducibility problems have been little discussed in this ...

Antique insect collections became exceedingly popular in the 1800s and early 1900s. They were often built as working reference libraries, containing pinned and labeled insects so that naturalists ...

As Pokémon turns 30, a video game inspired by insect-collecting continues to shape how scientists think and teach about bugs today.