A bush cricket nymph grooming its feet. Source: Ross Piper, with permission. Although I've spent many years studying various aspects of social behavior and the cognitive and emotional lives of mammals ...

Love them or hate them, cicadas are fascinating insects commonly talked about in North Carolina during the warmer months. Cicadas spend most of their life underground, emerging when soil temperatures ...

Some insects like mantids and grasshoppers have evolved in amazing ways in nature to blend into their environments to allow them both to hide from predators and capture their prey. From leaf insects ...

Kamala Peevy brings preserved insects to life through her taxidermy art, sharing her journey as a small business owner in Taft. TAFT, Calif. (KERO) — Kamala Peevy breathes life into preserved insects, ...

The halloween pennant dragonfly boasts distinct, brightly colored wings. How do dragonflies eat? Explore dragonflies life cycle and fantasies behind these fascinating insects, and learn how to attract ...

Good communication and cooperation aren’t just important for healthy human relationships. They’re invaluable to dung beetles as well. A recent study found that some dung beetle species work together ...

TUCSON (KVOA) - With the record amount of rainfall we've seen, you might have noticed more insects out than usual. The Monsoon is an active time for insects, and that activity has kept the University ...

Periodical 17-year cicadas are expected to emerge this spring in parts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, but will the Lehigh Valley share in the phenomenon? These bugs spend most of their lives as ...

Have you ever seen a massive bug that looks like a twig or tree branch? Probably not, because these rare insects are masters of camouflage. Giant stick insects are some of the most expensive insects ...

Let's talk about praying mantids in your garden. The first thing many of you are thinking as you're reading this is something like the following. "'Praying mantids?' I always called them 'praying ...