David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

Nature is often described as a battlefield, but for some predators, it is a masquerade ball. While most creatures use ...

In parts of east Africa and Asia, there is an insect with a distinctive defense mechanism: It disguises itself by covering its body in the corpses of other insects. Known by its scientific name ...

Bug experts are dropping the common name of a destructive insect because it's considered an ethnic slur: the gypsy moth. The Entomological Society of America, which oversees the common names of bugs, ...

Insects all over the Earth come in all shapes and sizes, from pesky mosquitoes to beautiful butterflies. The teeny tiny ...

“I remember one time when I was in school, there was this kid who — because I liked insects and stuff — he said something like, ‘So, the Japanese beetle is this beetle that eats crops and devastates ...

An old problem for trees in North America is getting a new name, as the Entomological Society of America reconsiders the common name for “gypsy moths.”The organization plans to review and replace ...

Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...

The names people use for insects, he learned, can affect both insects and people. So his ears perked when a May 2020 article in The New York Times about Vespa mandarinia — the world’s largest wasp ...