What you see here isn’t an animation from Pixar’s A Bug’s Life. This is a close-up of a swallowtail caterpillar, taken by ...

One example is the importance of pollinators. It is estimated that only about 3% of insects are pests. Metamorphosis refers to the insect’s life cycle, and how it changes and grows into an adult.

Lots of animals metamorphose, but we know most about insects. What can it mean for a caterpillar to turn into a butterfly, which looks so different, and yet retains its essence, the ability to ...

It explains how insects differ from other arthropods and highlights their reproductive methods, including incomplete and complete metamorphosis. The film discusses the ecological roles of insects ...

Seventeenth-century German artist, scientific illustrator and naturalist, Anna Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717) is best known for her travels and research in Dutch Suriname, South America. At a time ...