Ginny Mitchell says in her 13 years as the educational program coordinator, the Insect Zoo has reached more than 500-thousand Iowans, mostly children, through the Ames campus and during visits to ...

Amid the usual parade of creeping horrors—super lice, mayfly plagues and a “troll-haired insect discovered in remote Suriname”—the exterminator news site PestWeb recently shared a piece of ...

Samples of garden ants concealed in syringes are presented to court as two Belgian nationals, a Vietnamese and a Kenyan national appeared for the hearing of their case, after they pleaded guilty ...

How do scientists know which insects can see color? Illustration by Roche How do scientists know which insects can see color? John Jay Rouse | St. Cloud, Minnesota Much of what we know about ...

Many trout fly anglers love studying aquatic insects because imitating those bugs ... mayfly duns fly to streamside vegetation to once again molt, this time transforming into sexually mature ...

Giant freshwater crayfish, longer and bulkier than today's species, roamed New Zealand 20 million years ago. They would have made a perfect snack for the crocodiles and trout-sized whitebait that ...

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Photo by Christina & Peter As the globe warms, ecosystems face numerous challenges, but few are as critical as the impact of rising temperatures on insects and pollinators. These creatures, often ...

An inconspicuous, pale little bird, easily overlooked as it runs around on white sand beaches, or on the salt flats around lakes in the arid west. Where it lives on beaches, its nesting attempts are ...

Entomology is a branch of zoology concerned with the study of insects. The discipline can include the biology and control of insects, as well as their ecology and impact on animal, plant and human ...