I remember when people casually referred to all striped invertebrates as “bees,” when all insects were “bugs” and any such thing that buzzed in their vicinity required hosing with lethal poison. Some ...

While some gardeners still think that any bug in the garden is a bad bug, change is in the air. Most plant-lovers now realize that insects and plants go hand-in-hand and that there are far more ...

A small insect darts from the security of the branch upon which it sits. It flutters through the leaves providing cover, revealing itself for a fleeting moment to the area just beyond leafy cover.

When second-graders at Greenbriar West Elementary study insects, they do it wholeheartedly through art, science and writing. They even had live crickets in their classrooms, and teachers Gayle ...

La Trobe University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. I recently wrote about how important it is to be able to identify plants and animals. Knowing the names of species that live ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The UT Arboretum is hosting a Bug Camp at Oak Ridge this week. Rising second through fourth graders are getting the chance to be up-close-and-personal with all kinds of insects.

Damselfly, order Odonata, suborder Zygoptera. Editor at Large Nobody went to Colombia to get well in the early 1990s. Actually, few people went there even to visit—what with the drug wars and the ...

Notice any small creatures with super powers around your house or yard lately? Trout Lake Nature Center will have a program at 9:30 a.m. Saturday that focuses on the small wildlife that inhabits your ...

Join us Saturday, May 13 for a workshop with Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University Extension, Entomologist from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Burlington Library on 321 14 th Street in Burlington, ...

We've all noticed how much insects love to fly around lights. But why? Many answers have been proposed; some have suggested that insects have a direct attraction to the light itself; others have said ...