About 70% of the species on Earth are insects. They are fundamental components of most ecosystems: they comprise half of the ...

Butterflies are some of the most beautiful insects. There are also many beautiful moths. They have three main body regions ...

One of the most recognizable—and imitated—insects in the world is on the edge of extinction, scientists warn. “Monarchs need ...

Spring is a beautiful season for many reasons, but perhaps the most magical part of this time is the abundance of butterfly ...

Insects make up to 90% of all animal species on the planet, and most of them can be found in the tropics, the regions around ...

The evening was mild for March at dusk; temperatures were in the 30s and calm. I had left the floodlight on illuminating the ...

An annual count of monarch butterflies conducted by the United States and Mexico as the insects migrate back and forth over ...

Researchers working with Jurassic fossils from China have discovered insects with remarkably butterfly-like features, even though the species vanished some 40 to 50 million years before the appearance ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — When most people think of the Pennsylvania Farm Show, they’ll think of animals like cows and horses. But some much smaller creatures are also part of the Farm Show, and they ...

The world has lost more than one quarter of its land-dwelling insects in the past 30 years, according to researchers whose big picture study of global bug decline paints a disturbing but more nuanced ...