Tom Wassmer is crouched down in a pasture, staring very intently at some cow manure. Wassmer is pointing at a nondescript dung beetle, no bigger than a grain of rice, with a shiny black head and a ...

While some gardeners still think that any bug in the garden is a bad bug, change is in the air. Most plant-lovers now realize that insects and plants go hand-in-hand and that there are far more ...

Even at levels safe for humans, air pollution can disrupt the way some insects communicate with plants, and with each other.

When second-graders at Greenbriar West Elementary study insects, they do it wholeheartedly through art, science and writing. They even had live crickets in their classrooms, and teachers Gayle ...

La Trobe University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. I recently wrote about how important it is to be able to identify plants and animals. Knowing the names of species that live ...

Notice any small creatures with super powers around your house or yard lately? Trout Lake Nature Center will have a program at 9:30 a.m. Saturday that focuses on the small wildlife that inhabits your ...

I remember when people casually referred to all striped invertebrates as “bees,” when all insects were “bugs” and any such thing that buzzed in their vicinity required hosing with lethal poison. Some ...

We've all noticed how much insects love to fly around lights. But why? Many answers have been proposed; some have suggested that insects have a direct attraction to the light itself; others have said ...

All around us, insects are speaking to each other: jockeying for mates, searching for food, and trying to avoid becoming someone else’s next meal. Some of this communication is easy to spot—like the ...

Researchers have shown that damselflies learn how to choose the right mate when two species co-exist locally. The choice of mate is not only a matter of genetic and instinctive behavior, as has often ...