BROOKINGS, S.D. — Abigail Martens grew up on a corn and soybean farm her parents still run at Missouri Valley, Iowa, about 20 miles north of Omaha, Neb. As a kid, she’d bring home snakes, bullfrogs, ...

It’s Halloween every day for the bone collector caterpillar. The moth larva decorates its drag-along dwelling with scavenged body parts from dead insects. This ghastly getup may allow the creatures to ...

Insects are found almost everywhere and in all environments. They inhabited the earth before the dinosaurs — and are still with us today! We know of about 1 million species, but biologists think there ...

Learn more about amber from South America, which reveals a warm, wet forest filled with insects, springtails, and spiders.

Examining community-wide patterns for the most diverse animal group, insects, is fundamental to our understanding of the ecological and evolutionary factors that maintain tropical diversity. Using ...

Research by a team of Michigan State University scientists has shed new light on why some body parts are more sensitive to environmental change than others, work that could someday lead to better ways ...