Extreme land use combined with warming temperatures are pushing insect ecosystems toward collapse in some parts of the world, scientists reported Wednesday. The study, published in the journal Nature, ...

It was during a coffee-on-the-deck session that I happened to see an unusual insect perched on the floor. I recognized it right away as an adult cicada. It has been many years since I last saw one of ...

The future of spy bugs may be an actual insect: the Madagascar hissing cockroach. SWARM Biotactics, a German startup, is ...

Melting ice sheets, rampant wildfires, devastating floods. Climate change is a global emergency. The food system? It causes as much as a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, and unless we make ...

The Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme is crawling with insects. A swarm of cicadas climbs up a bedroom wall. Bees buzz around a hat on a bed. Spiky-antennaed stag beetles sit on loaves of bread and ...

If the thought of eating bugs makes you squirm, we have some bad news: You have probably been chowing down on these many-legged creatures for a long time. The 16-ounce jar of peanut butter in your ...