Insects may sometimes seem like a scourge on humanity, but without them, our lives would look very different. The quintillions of insects that inhabit our world help feed us, clothe us and have ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — One thing is certain about the majority of Alaska’s aquatic insects: they won’t be winning any beauty contests. These crawlers, swimmers and graspers boast characteristics such as ...

It was a kind of quest, with a cast of characters like the Unicorn Clubtail, Coppery Emerald, Arrowhead Spiketail and Umber Shadowdragon, names straight out of a sword-and-sorcery novel. But biologist ...

The objects of this little book are to aid its users in identifying and learning something about the larger insects in the British Isles. Owing to the number of species—more than twenty thousand—the ...

News flash gardeners. We have a new, comprehensive resource to help manage bugs in the vegetable garden. Susan Mulvihill, my Spokesman-Review colleague and co-author with me of the “Northwest Garden’s ...

People are understandably pretty smitten with large vertebrates, but insects are ... in terms of their ecological impact, ...

It’s probably been awhile — and that’s a problem, Oliver Milman writes in his new book, “The Insect Crisis.” By Thor Hanson When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

A butterfly found perfectly preserved inside a Cambridge University library book may have been there for almost 400 years. Head of Library Services at Trinity College Jenni Lecky-Thompson was shocked ...