If you have ever been camping or spent any time outside during a hot summer night, you no doubt know about the existence of ...

Park ranger Jesse Anderson leads dozens of people on a weekly hike in North Carolina to see some of the most unique living ...

What’s the best way to get mosquito bites to stop itching?” I figured I’d get a handful of helpful replies, but within a few ...

Discover interesting facts about insects, the critters whose combined weight on the planet is 70 times that of all humans.

Mosquito bites are irritating at best and vectors for disease at worst. Depending on what country you are in, they can ...

Dengue fever is a potentially life-threatening viral infection transmitted through the bite of infected mosquitoes.

Releases of sterile male mosquitoes in L.A. County drove down the pest population, studies found. But homeowners would need to pay to bring them to a wider area.

These caterpillars make protective shelling out of dead insect body parts. Rubinoff lab, Entomology Section, University of Hawaii, Manoa In the damp hollows of a Hawaiian mountainside, something ...

The species, dubbed the "bone collector," belongs to an ancient lineage of moths older than the Hawaiian island of Oahu, which is the only place it's known to live today ...

The bone collector caterpillar meticulously decorates its portable silk case with inedible insect body parts, including ant heads, fly legs, and other prey parts, giving its case a macabre appearance.

A newly described species from Hawaiʻi hides itself with carcasses to avoid getting eaten by spiders. Newly described bone collector caterpillars build a silken case around their bodies and adorn ...