A tiny fossil discovered exactly a century ago has caused an enormous change in our understanding of when flying insects ...

Ancient evidence reveals that humans have eaten insects for thousands of years, challenging Western attitudes about what ...

New research from Durham University highlights how insects have been part of human diets for thousands of years despite ...

Today, as a global leader in the cultivation of insect protein for food, it has a weekly harvest of 3,000 pounds (1,361 kg) ...

Insects are strange, wondrous beings. Butterflies can see parts of the light spectrum that are invisible to human eyes and use these ultraviolet patterns to find their way to tasty plants. Moths use ...

“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 ...

Eating insects is considered as disgusting or even primitive in Western societies but elsewhere, 2 billion people consume insects on a regularly basis. Now, according to a report released by the UN ...

Over the past 20 years a steady trickle of scientific papers has reported that there are fewer insects than there used to be. Both the combined weight (what scientists call biomass) and diversity of ...

Australia's stick insects have been photographed millions of times, studied in museums, and kept as pets, yet scientists just realized something fundamental about them has been wrong all along.

There are multiple species of insects that might try to get inside your house this fall. Here's what you can do to keep them out.