The number of insect species is mind-boggling — and they are a critical part of the environment. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Through pollination and feeding on all parts of plants, insects influence which plants thrive, which struggle, and even ...

Spiders? Not insects. Ticks? Not insects. These are some of the misconceptions brought up as Valparaiso University Professor Kristi Bugajski introduced herself to the audience of over 80 people who ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

Scientists in Hawaii have discovered a new, rare and bizarre species of carnivorous, bone-collecting caterpillars. After hatching, the tiny insects live almost their entire lives in the web of a ...