Nature doesn’t hold back when it comes to insects. While most people imagine bugs as brown, creepy, or bland, there’s a whole world of creatures that look like they were painted by a surrealist. Here ...

All of us were taught in our elementary school science class about monarch butterflies and their caterpillar stage that only eats milkweed leaves. Other insects also eat milkweeds, but they are hardly ...

Most stick insect species blend into their surroundings to avoid predators. But the males of two newly described species from madagascar, Achrioptera manga and Achrioptera maroloko, are brightly ...

These charming and colorful insects have an appetite for mosquitos. Tom Oder is a writer, editor, and communication expert who specializes in sustainability and the environment with a sweet spot for ...

Brightly-colored beetles or caterpillars feeding on a tropical plant may signal the presence of chemical compounds active against cancer and parasitic diseases, report researchers writing in the ...

It’s taken more than a decade, but scientists have cracked the case of these colorful insects found thousands of miles away from home. Painted lady butterflies (Vanessa cardui, shown resting on a bush ...

From a distance, you might mistake Picasso shield bugs for little Easter eggs. But why are the insects so colorful, and what do they have to do with Picasso? PETBOOK author and biologist Saskia ...

Some butterflies change their spots, and scientists say they’ve found the reason why. The butterfly Bicyclus anynana comes in two distinct forms. In the wet season, the bug is emblazoned with large, ...

Just as spring is ushered in with bird song and the trill of spring peepers, late summer is defined by the insect symphony. All the parks host insects, of course, but these days my favorite to visit - ...

The anise swallowtail and monarch butterflies raised by Lynette and Kevin Rivard in a series of aquariums in the Richmond home they’ve occupied since 1976 offer far more than beauty to their beholders ...