Nature doesn't hold back when it comes to insects. While most people imagine bugs as brown, creepy, or bland, there's a whole world of creatures that look like they were painted by a surrealist. Here ...

There are a lot of animals to love in the world… but insects are pretty low on most people’s lists. In fact, it’s said that 1 in 10 adults in the United States have entomophobia, a fear of insects.

All of us were taught in our elementary school science class about monarch butterflies and their caterpillar stage that only eats milkweed leaves. Other insects also eat milkweeds, but they are hardly ...

It's a living flash of color in the Central American rainforest! Dan Smith shows how this hot-pink insect still manages to ...

Watching insects live their weird lives is endlessly amusing. It used to be only within the grasp of production crews with big budgets to capture such vivid detail. Nowadays, all you need is a Canon ...

Welcome to National Moth Week! (July 23-31) As an insect enthusiast, I encourage everyone to take a closer look at the vast diversity of moths that fill our world. Butterflies and moths belong to the ...

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Biologists have identified fundamental mechanisms in visual information processing in fruit flies. The exquisite capability of insects to detect color and to distinguish for instance flowers is ...

I have a friend who has had bird feeders for years and is fairly knowledgeable about most of the birds that visit her feeders. However, the other day I was telling her about the warblers that were ...