A handful of new studies moves the needle toward a consensus on the long-disputed question of whether insect wings evolved from legs or from the body wall, but the devil is in the details. Jef Akst ...

Mayflies don't bite and adults only live for a day, but you don't want to get stuck in a swarm. Here's what to know about the mayfly insect.

Like all living things, minibeasts have to eat, drink, sleep and protect themselves ... Others, such as bees, ladybirds and dragonflies, have wings which allow them to fly. Those that move along ...

We associate insect ingestion with reality television shows ... [See a photo recap of Countries Where They Eat Bugs] Citizens of Thailand are no strangers to entomophagy. In fact, fried bugs ...

Thrips are tiny insects—their sizes range between 0.5mm and 15mm in length and many are shorter than 5mm. But the damage they ...

Like all living things, minibeasts have to eat, drink, sleep and protect themselves ... Others, such as bees, ladybirds and dragonflies, have wings which allow them to fly. Those that move along ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Horizon Insects is an insect farm in London that rears thousands of edible worms and crickets. It now produces 50 kilograms of insects every eight weeks but it was ...