A: The short answer is that these small black bugs in the house that aren’t fruit flies could be a number of different types of insects, from gnats to ants to flies. While gnat bugs are technically a ...

Nature is often described as a battlefield, but for some predators, it is a masquerade ball. While most creatures use ...

Insects all over the Earth come in all shapes and sizes, from pesky mosquitoes to beautiful butterflies. The teeny tiny ...

[WATCH: Dig This: It’s time to clean things up for our backyard birds.] (WJW) – As temperatures drop experts warn that several ‘unwelcome guests’ will soon try to make their way indoors — if they ...

Insect classification can be perplexing to the best of us, and the Reduviidae family of insects is no exception. In this expansive family of “bugs”, there are several common names such as Wheel Bugs ...

The names people use for insects, he learned, can affect both insects and people. So his ears perked when a May 2020 article in The New York Times about Vespa mandarinia — the world’s largest wasp ...

An old problem for trees in North America is getting a new name, as the Entomological Society of America reconsiders the common name for “gypsy moths.”The organization plans to review and replace ...

In parts of east Africa and Asia, there is an insect with a distinctive defense mechanism: It disguises itself by covering its body in the corpses of other insects. Known by its scientific name ...

Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...