If you garden without pesticides, one of the best ways to manage pests is by keeping your plants healthy and encouraging ...

Different insects flap their wings in different manners. Understanding the variations between these modes of flight may help scientists design better and more efficient flying robots in the future.

ticks and other disease-carrying insects. But which of the two is more effective? Do they last as long? And are they equally ...

Through Stéphane's knowledge of stick insects, right away he noticed that these really resemble a completely different genus. And so they knew that these species were actually the same thing, not ...

The result of his work is an alarmingly comprehensive pain index, ranking 83 insect stings on a spectrum of 1 to 4. For example, the red fire ant, native to South America is a 1: "Sharp, sudden ...

Insects were the world's first aviators, and to this day their evolutionary descendants perform aerial stunts more dashing than the Blue Angels: They zip past your eyes like meteors, then hover ...

Insect feces and exoskeletons can make agriculture more sustainable and produce less waste, scientists say. By Sabrina Imbler Insects excrete, just as we do, but their feces have a more pleasing ...

People tend to lump June bugs, green June beetles, and Japanese beetles together as "white grubs", but they are three different insects. What do June bugs look like?