From disease-spreading mosquitoes to venomous scorpions, here are the deadliest insects in India and why they pose serious risks to humans.

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Swarms of insects breeding in a polluted river near the Taj Mahal are threatening the intricate marble inlay work at the 17th century monument to love by leaving green and black ...

In these golden-hued images, the tiny inhabitants of a once vibrant forest are frozen in the sticky geological preservative of amber. The photographs come from a paper published in this week's ...

A cache of ancient insects trapped in amber reveals that the Indian subcontinent wasn't as isolated 50 million years ago as previously believed, according to a new study. The find, 330 pounds (150 ...

The insects - bees, termites, spiders, and flies - had been entombed in the vast Cambay deposit in western India for some 50 million years. Scientists had long assumed that India was for a time an ...

An egg-seller in Kolkata. India is one of the largest egg-producing countries in the world. Photo by Jorge Royan/Wikimedia Commons. India is one of the world’s largest egg producing countries after ...

India’s bioeconomy contributes 2.6% to the GDP. In April 2023, the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) released its ‘Bioeconomy Report 2022’ report, envisioning this contribution to be closer to 5% by ...

John Muir, the nineteenth-century naturalist, once wrote that a “multitude of animal people, intimately related to us, but of whose lives we know almost nothing, are as busy about their own affairs as ...

Many people use 'bug' and 'insect' interchangeably. Scientifically, insects are a broad class. True bugs are a specific order within insects, known as Hemiptera. They have unique piercing-sucking ...