The consumption of edible insects, a common part of the diet of some Asian and Latin American countries, is tentatively ...

In 2018, researchers from Bat Conservation International, Cameroon’s University of Maroua and the American Museum of Natural ...

The wood-boring beetle was first discovered in North Texas in Tarrant County in 2018 when a 10-year-old took a photo of the ...

Demand for exotic pets and collectors’ items drives a flourishing illegal trade in beetles, spiders, and more. Found in the tropical forests of West Africa, emperor scorpions are popular pets because ...

Do you hate mosquitoes but prefer not to use deet? While deet has a well-established safety record, Consumer Reports’ tests show that you have some other safe and effective options, including ...

Andrew Hawkins is a producer, known for In Search of Darkness (2019), In Search of Darkness: Part II (2020), In Search of Tomorrow (2021), and Insect (2018).

More than a hundred million years before fish crawled out of water and evolved into walking, four-legged vertebrates, invertebrates ruled over Earth’s terrestrial environments unchallenged, says Will ...

ABSTRACT: Studies on the effects of pesticide mixtures on the nervous system have not been reviewed. The aim of this article was to systematically review the literature on neurotoxicity induced by a ...

Flying insect populations are plummeting even in remote, undisturbed ecosystems, raising fears that climate change may be playing a greater role than previously understood. The study, conducted by ...

Traditionally, insects have been thought to be entirely dependent on their innate immune system, which has little capacity for the acquisition of experience from previous infections. However, much ...

Entomophobia is an irrational and persistent fear of bugs. Those with a fear of insects may go to great lengths to avoid them, or they will experience significant distress when encountering an insect.