Giant prehistoric insects, some with two-foot wingspans, once roamed Earth. For years, scientists believed higher oxygen ...

Ever wondered if insects feel pain? We interact with them every day, and they're nearly 40% of all living species on Earth. Now new research explores the possibility that insects feel the subjective ...

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Did you know your lipstick might be made from beetles? Or that some cat food may soon be made from flies? People farm insects for all sorts of reasons: Farmers rear bees to pollinate billions of ...

Ancient Earth once buzzed with enormous dragonfly-like insects, and scientists long thought high oxygen levels made their size possible. A new study overturns that idea, revealing insect flight ...

An evolutionary biologist reports evidence of repeatable evolution in populations of stick insects. A long-standing debate among evolutionary scientists goes something like this: Does evolution happen ...

When pollinators land on a flower, they're on a mission: They're looking for sweet nectar to eat and specks of nutritious pollen to bring back to their young. But how do insects know where to find ...

In the natural order of things, maggots usually wait for us to stop being alive before they start their meal, but new archaeological evidence suggests our prehistoric relatives weren’t above beating ...

Eating a bowl full of chickpeas, raisins, and mealworms might be strange to some people but for Eric Zay, it's just an everyday snack. The science teacher at Success Virtual Learning Center in Lansing ...

In his fierce, unending war against the insects, man is getting exactly nowhere. There may be as many as 2,500,000 species of insects infesting the world, and in the U.S. alone about 10,000 of them ...