Stand outside one spring night in southeastern Australia and you may be able to witness one of the biggest insect migrations in the world, as billions of brown Bogong moths (Agrotis infusa) flit ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The University of Hawai‘i Insect Museum is looking to celebrate insects and help preserve native insects by hosting their first-ever art show in October. Insect-lovers and artists ...

The earliest cities may have had plenty of parasitic, six-legged tenants. Common bedbugs (Cimex lectularius) experienced a dramatic jump in population size around the time humans congregated in the ...

As the first North American insect to go extinct due to humans, a blue butterfly has become an icon for insect conservation -- and what happens when humans destroy habitats without thought for the ...

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.

Plants can move in ways that might surprise you. Some of them even show “sleep movements,” folding or raising their leaves each night before opening them again the next day. Now, researchers reporting ...