Insects are everywhere – in backyards, balconies and the park down the street. In fact, numerically speaking, insects dominate the Earth with more than 5.5 million species. An estimated 10 quintillion ...

Akito Y. Kawahara is an associate professor and curator of insects at the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida. Megan Ennes is an assistant curator of museum education at the ...

Insectapalooza is a one-day educational event hosted by the Department of Entomology intended to display the department’s research and get the public excited about insects, said organizer Prof. Linda ...

It's a noisy place out there in the backyard, even after you turn off the mower and the leaf blower, silence the dog and the neighborhood kids, and just stand and listen. It can be a veritable ...

"Look through the microscope and you can see the mouth moving," said Axhel Munoz, volunteer instructor for the Sonoran Desert Kids Club. He was explaining how to view dragonfly specimens up close ...

Insects creep out some people simply by being themselves. Now imagine big versions of them. Massively big, as in up to 600 times larger than their actual size. That’s the concept behind “The World of ...

"Everybody loves bugs, dude!" Candy Lee exclaimed to her 5-year-old while answering why she writes so many songs about bugs. While talking with What's Up! about her soon-to-be released Backyard Bugs 2 ...

Stick insects make a certain amount of sense, evolutionarily speaking. They look like sticks, or twigs, or leaves; thus camouflaged, they presumably have a better chance of avoiding predators, ...

Producing meat pollutes and requires a lot of space and resources (water, grains . . . ). To protect the planet, we must therefore find new sources of protein. One of the solutions is to replace, at ...