Scientists observed a beetle walking upside-down on the undersurface of a pool of water.

Researcher accidentally spots tiny insect walking on the underside of the water surface as if it were a pane of glass

From Ireland to Israel, companies are coming to the aid of the environmentally critical insect.

The workers of a South African subspecies of honeybee can clone themselves, with one individual having done so many millions of times over the past 30 years. Some of the clones can even develop into queens that can take over the hive.

Erika Thompson is clearly a competent beekeeper, who's educating the public about honeybees in her own way on social media.

Cicadas competing in the Olympics or jamming in a band? How about a line of cicadas waiting in line for vaccinations at CVS? The appearance of the insects known as Brood X, or Brood 10, along the eastern United States after a 17-year hiatus has inspired Virginia professional portrait photographer Oxana Ware to create small-scale art installations, placing the ubiquitous bugs in novel and unexpected settings.

Researchers have synthesized a particle as small as pollen, which, when fed to bees, may be able to help them to detoxify hives damaged by pesticides, in an effort to protect the insects.

While we all recognize bees for their importance in our food chain as pollinators, the clever creatures have a series of other talents, including math ability, face recognition, and even tool use.  

Microparticles that detoxify insecticides in bee guts could help beekeepers keep their hives healthy and productive, according to a new study.

A fungus with the same chemical as psychedelic mushrooms eats away cicadas' abdomens and alters their behavior in strange ways.

The world's network of road and highways may be harming insects and the plants they pollinate. Roads and highways may be harming plants and bees.

New Japanese vending machines sell only edible insects. The nine options include deep-fried or dried crickets, locusts, and silkworm chrysalises.

New research on ants has shown a first in insects: the ability to shrink and then regrow their brains in a big way. It relates to how these particular ants, called Harpegnathos saltator, or the Indian jumping ant, reproduce.

The number of monarch butterflies that showed up at their winter resting grounds in central Mexico decreased by about 26% this year, and four times as many trees were lost to illegal logging, drought and other causes, making 2020 a bad year for the butterflies.

Bees feed us. Many of the 20,000 species pollinate 85 percent of food crops and fruits around the world—everything from garlic and grapefruits to coffee and kale. But, it seems, these crucial insects aren’t doing very well. A study published today in the journal One Earth reveals that in recent decades, the number of bee species reported in the wild has declined globally. The sharpest decrease occurred between 2006 and 2015, with roughly 25 percent fewer species spotted—even as sightings by citizen scientists were increasing rapidly.

States, tribes oppose federal move to end quarantines and rely on tiny wasps to fight emerald ash borer

New plant by InnovaFeed and Archer Daniels Midland will produce 60,000 metric tons of animal feed protein per year, a step toward mainstreaming the low-carbon method of feeding the world's farm animals. "If they can pull this off, it will be magnificent,” said one researcher.

I'm one of a small number of Australians with a potentially deadly allergy to red meat. And it's all thanks to a creature as small as a grain of sand, writes Menios Constantinou.

"The miso maker, which has seen brisk sales of its bug products, is now preparing for a second round of soy sauce production."