For human societies, insects are part of a shared ecology involving the gamut of symbiotic relations. Insects (and arthropods ...

Michael Samways receives funding from National Research Foundation, EU projects, Mondi Group. Insects are fundamental to the functioning of land and freshwater ecosystems. They permeate all aspects of ...

When a man in his mid-50s living in New Delhi, India first noticed some mild irritation in his right eye, he figured it would pass. But after it persisted for ten days, he thought back to an unlucky ...

On warm summer nights, green lacewings flutter around bright lanterns in backyards and at campsites. The insects, with their veil-like wings, are easily distracted from their natural preoccupation ...

This story appears in the September 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. We fool ourselves most days. We imagine the Earth to be ours, but it belongs to them. We have barely begun to count ...