Some insects smell like cilantro, others like bleach or rotting flesh, and a few can blister skin or trigger asthma with a single spray. The chemistry behind these odors reveals a surprisingly ...

The Forest Preserves of Cook County annual Insect Fest in River Forest ended an hour early because of air quality concerns.

Stick bugs are a fascinating insect variety. They have uniquely camouflaged bodies that make them fun models in science education. But their eating habits can devastate trees and damage forests. This ...

The new Wilma P. Mankiller Cherokee Capitol Park was the location of a program to introduce visitors to insects they might find while visiting there. At the “Intro to Park Bugs” event July 21, Chris ...

“For me, it was a road-to-Damascus type of moment,” James Truman, an entomologist, told me, recalling an encounter when he was sixteen. “My family had a summer place, a trailer, on the shores of Lake ...

Young birds that eat insects with conspicuous warning colouration to advertise their toxicity to would-be predators quickly learn to avoid other prey that carry the same markings. Developing on this ...

Somewhere in the forest canopies of eastern Indonesia lurks an insect that can clone itself, weaponize its own wings, and grow nearly as long as your forearm. Scientists still have far more questions ...

More than twenty years after those early studies attracted attention, scientists continue investigating how insects breathe, ...