Is your kid interested in creepy, crawly insects and other arthropods? If the answer is yes, they’ll want to check out a free coloring book created by the entomologist who directs North Carolina State ...

News flash gardeners. We have a new, comprehensive resource to help manage bugs in the vegetable garden. Susan Mulvihill, my Spokesman-Review colleague and co-author with me of the “Northwest Garden’s ...

Insects may sometimes seem like a scourge on humanity, but without them, our lives would look very different. The quintillions of insects that inhabit our world help feed us, clothe us and have ...

Insects may resemble ‘aliens on earth’ – but life as we know it couldn’t function without them, as this lucid homage shows In Ray Bradbury’s 1952 short story A Sound of Thunder, a private safari group ...

Scientists have discovered the remains of a 400 million-year-old insect, the oldest ever located, in a fossil unearthed in Scotland in the early 1900s. The U.S. scientists spotted the remains of the ...

Summer! A time for leisurely beach reading. Or, a time when you're traveling and need something to read as you jet from meeting to meeting. Either way, here's some of the new insect books out this ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I got an email with this book's name in the ...

They may not be as large or deadly as a Tyrannosaurus Rex, but ancient insects are just as fascinating and tell scientists a lot about the ancient and modern worlds – and even the future of our planet ...

Insect lives aren’t so dissimilar to our own – they love, work, dance and sing just like us. The only difference is that they live in books as figments of the imaginations of Polish illustrators. What ...

The rise of insects was a factor in the downfall of dinosaurs, a new book argues. It wasn't just the bugs themselves, but also the diseases they carried and their impact on vegetation that led to the ...