The petrol-blue wings of a swallowtail butterfly, soft fur of a giant Patagonian bumblebee, and oil-painted smudges of a ladybug are some of the details captured by British photographer Levon Biss in ...

Spring, Winner, Young Close-up Photographer of the Year 6; European Bee-eater in mid-flight with insect in its beak The Close-up Photographer of the Year organization (CUPOTY) has announced the ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

The South has the ideal environment — warm and moist — for most insects to thrive in. This week's topic was for nature and critter lovers who take time to notice details in the smaller beings around ...

Smile-for-the-Camera, Finalist Invertebrate Portrait category: A young female white-legged damselfly Austria. Celebrating the details most people overlook, the Close-up Photographer of the Year ...

An introduction to the physical characteristics and habits of insects, with pop-up, lift-up, and pull features.

KIDS CAN CHEER ON their favorite Madagascar hissing cockroaches Saturday during races at BugFest 2005, a one-day event at the National Museum of Natural History designed to give visitors a close-up ...

The average Hackaday reader is likely at least familiar with acoustic levitation — a technique by which carefully arranged ultrasonic transducers can be used to suspend an object in the air ...

A family-friendly gathering of insect enthusiasts is returning to Drexel's Academy of Natural Sciences. At Bug Fest, people can get an up-close look at tiny and large insects, chat with scientists and ...

More than 1,000 third graders from across Tulsa spent Thursday learning about insects up close during the Exploring Insects event hosted by Tulsa Master Gardeners and OSU at Expo Square. TULSA, Okla. ...

More than half of all known animal species on Earth are insects — critters with a hard external skeleton, three pairs of jointed legs, antennae and a body divided into three segments (the head, thorax ...