JUNEAU, Alaska — One thing is certain about the majority of Alaska’s aquatic insects: they won’t be winning any beauty contests. These crawlers, swimmers and graspers boast characteristics such as ...

News flash gardeners. We have a new, comprehensive resource to help manage bugs in the vegetable garden. Susan Mulvihill, my Spokesman-Review colleague and co-author with me of the “Northwest Garden’s ...

Insects may sometimes seem like a scourge on humanity, but without them, our lives would look very different. The quintillions of insects that inhabit our world help feed us, clothe us and have ...

Scientists have discovered the remains of a 400 million-year-old insect, the oldest ever located, in a fossil unearthed in Scotland in the early 1900s. The U.S. scientists spotted the remains of the ...

Josh Evans works to learn everything about the intricacies of insect-eating. Photo-Illustration: Grub Street. Photos: Pramothy Chiy Di/EyeEm/Getty Images; ksushachmeister/Getty Images It’s the middle ...

In 2013, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations published a 200-page report promoting the practice of eating insects. The purpose of the report was to tell those of us in the West ...

The rise of insects was a factor in the downfall of dinosaurs, a new book argues. It wasn't just the bugs themselves, but also the diseases they carried and their impact on vegetation that led to the ...

Insect lives aren’t so dissimilar to our own – they love, work, dance and sing just like us. The only difference is that they live in books as figments of the imaginations of Polish illustrators. What ...

In perhaps the most cringe-worthy writing since “Lolita,” a new book from U.C. Berkeley alums exposes the horrible little beasties that share our homes with us. In San Francisco you can forget about ...

If the arthropods ever decide to hire a spokesman to work with homo sapiens, there's a pretty good chance that Barrett Klein will be on the shortlist. Not only has the University of Wisconsin-La ...

They may not be as large or deadly as a Tyrannosaurus Rex, but ancient insects are just as fascinating and tell scientists a lot about the ancient and modern worlds – and even the future of our planet ...