The giant water bug is a venomous insect with a painful bite. Learn more about how to identify water bugs, why you get them, prevention strategies, and more.

Palmetto bugs are large cockroaches that live in the American southeast. Learn more about palmetto bug traits, why you get them, how to get rid of them, and more.

Rove beetles fold their wings in five swift steps using their abdomen. See how nature inspired future flight tech.

In the summer of 2022, social media users shared a photograph of a rather elaborate-looking insect with beautiful iridescent wings. The picture prompted questions about whether it accurately ...

Pokémon fan art is a wide and colorful universe, but occasionally a piece stands out from the rest, one that makes even experienced trainers stop and take notice. Popular mascots such as Pikachu and ...

Boxelder bugs are known to gather on Boxelder female trees but not male. Boxelder bugs also live in other trees, as they are seed-feeders, and use their piercing mouths to draw sap from trees.

“We would absolutely die to have an entire bug with wings from that period, we could learn so much from their structure.” Journal reference: Nature (vol 427, p 627) ...

A teeny robot designed to replicate the wing dynamics of rhinoceros beetles could be well-suited for search-and-rescue missions, as well as spying on real insects, according to researchers at ...

High-speed imaging and AI help us understand how insect wings work Too many muscles working too fast had made understanding insect flight challenging.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (WKRC) — A giant, flying bug found at a Walmart turned out to be a rare insect from the Jurassic period. Michael Skvarla, the director of Penn State University’s Insect ...

Some insects can flap their wings so rapidly that it’s impossible for instructions from their brains to entirely control the behaviour. Building tiny flapping robots has helped researchers shed ...

The Butterfly House and Bug Zoo is the home to hundreds of invertebrates from around the world. Some of the butterflies they have came all the way from Mexico to Northern Michigan! With a visit at ...