Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Exploring anywhere on Earth, look closely and you’ll find insects. Check your backyard and you may see ants, beetles, crickets, ...

Scientists rethink why giant insects once ruled the skies, finding oxygen may not explain their size or disappearance.

Around a quarter of people are scared of insects and/or spiders. This phobia is quite strange, really, as deep down, we know that most of these tiny creatures can’t hurt us, and yet we still can’t ...

These insects might be pests, but their names can be even more problematic. These insects might be pests, but their names can be even more problematic. is a senior science reporter covering energy and ...

Three-hundred-million years ago, Earth was very different. The continents had coalesced into Pangea, which was dominated in ...

The findings reveal that insects developed modern patterns of herbivory long before flowering plants flourished, upending a long-held hypothesis Jack Tamisiea Paleontologist Conrad Labandeira, the ...

A wasp clings to a plant in a meadow in the sunshine. Reporter With summer around the corner, so too are the bugs. Insects, much like their human counterparts, are more lively in the spring and summer ...