BURBANK, Calif. -- Tim Plunkett, of Woodland Hills, takes turmeric to reduce inflammation, but a recent report on what else might be in the bottle turned his stomach. "The sample that they found, I ...

A USCBP statement said the plastic flowers were shipped from Kenya.US Customs and Border Protection The USCBP said it seized a parcel of plastic flowers that contained 630 live insect larvae. The ...

Researchers studying amber containing the larvae of Cretaceous insects reveal that immature lacewings likely specialized in killing spiders. They walked across spider webs with ease thanks to long, ...

Paleontologists, including researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN), have described the oldest insect larval feeding tunnels inside leaves, also known as leaf mines, along with ...

Hundreds of pests were found inside a package of fake flowers at a New York City airport, officials say. Giorgio Trovato via Unsplash A bundle of flowers in a package shipped to the U.S. was fake — ...

Elaina O’Brien ran back to staff housing on a busy morning at the Camp Denali lodge last Friday to grab the radio she’d forgotten at her cabin. She looked down at the flagstone path, and what she saw ...

The news follows latest research from European Union (EU)-funded project PROteINSECT, which promotes the benefits, health, safety and hygiene of using fly larvae in animal feed. Researchers ...

Researchers in Spain have shown a novel way for insects to travel—as larval stowaways in the guts of migrating birds. “It’s the first time insects have been shown to be carried inside birds,” reports ...

There's nothing gross about eating bugs. People all over the world eat insects, including in New York City, where you can eat grasshoppers and fried silk worm as easily as you can ride a sugar unicorn ...

Insects are strange, wondrous beings. Butterflies can see parts of the light spectrum that are invisible to human eyes and use these ultraviolet patterns to find their way to tasty plants. Moths use ...

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