New calculations suggest that the insect species inhabiting our planet may be double or triple previous estimates.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Using weather radar, scientists tracked flying insects across the United States for a decade. They found stable national numbers ...

Exploring anywhere on Earth, look closely and you’ll find insects. Check your backyard and you may see ants, beetles, crickets, wasps, mosquitoes and more. There are more kinds of insects than there ...

The historic cicada invasion is upon us! Noisy flying insects known as cicadas have begun emerging from the ground and have been spotted buzzing around North Carolina and South Carolina before they ...

A parasitic worm uses static electricity to launch itself onto flying insects, a mechanism uncovered by physicists and biologists at Emory and Berkeley. By generating opposite charges, the worm and ...