Zipping from one hand to the other, six legs less than an inch long poke at the skin. As the cockroach explores, the movement continues. The 40th annual Insect Fear Film Festival happened on Saturday ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. But just as we are starting to understand insect senses, something is shifting in the ...

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 ...

The monster movie Guillermo del Toro calls “a great sci-fi thriller” and “the ‘Citizen Kane’ of giant insect films" is now ...

Dara Ojo was once afraid of spiders, particularly the biting, venomous kind. How times have changed. Not only is the photographer willing to get up very close and personal with arachnids of all ...

Around 100 trillion insects fly in the skies above the USA on a summer's day, according to estimates by researchers from the ...

Nature is often described as a battlefield, but for some predators, it is a masquerade ball. While most creatures use ...

The more we study sentience among nonhuman animals (animals) the more species are added to the sentience arena—the biodiversity of sentience is forever growing—and ethical questions about pain and ...

Smart homes decked out with motion sensors, automated lights, and precision thermostats are often considered must-haves in futuristic dwellings. But could they pave the way forward for beehives, too?