Insect legs are a lot like human legs. Some of the leg parts even have the same names–even though insects don’t have bones.

If you find a mystery bug on your plant, there’s a way here in Albuquerque to figure out what it is. The Bernalillo County Extension Office offers a bug ...

The population of flying insects in the United Kingdom has fallen by two thirds (63%) in just three years, according to new ...

Though many talk of anecdotal “windshield phenomenon” observations, ecologists caution against oversimplifying the global ...

These free parts of an ant worksheet pages have been a great way for us to explore insect science at home, and they fit right in with our other animal anatomy worksheets. My son enjoyed learning the ...

To focus on the insect book, the Costas will be splitting their residency into three two-week periods, spending time in the ...

It creeps along spiderwebs, feeding on trapped insects and decorating its silk case with their body parts. There are other meat-eating caterpillars that “do lots of crazy things, but this takes the ...

by hiding its body inside a case it fashions from its own silk and adorns it with inedible body parts that it collected from the dead insects. Through metamorphosis, this caterpillar eventually ...

The discovery of the bone collector species was serendipitous. "You never forget your first bone collector," Rubinoff told ...

A severed ant head. A fly wing. A beetle abdomen. These body parts ripped from devoured insects festoon a newfound caterpillar’s protective coat. Dubbed the “bone collector,” this ...

The newly described “bone collector” caterpillar species disguises itself with the body parts of dead insects so that it can live among spiders and poach their prey. This is the only ...

First, he said, they came across strange silk cases decorated with the minuscule body parts of insects and spiders found in the forested mountains on the island of Oahu. Then he noticed that these ...