GRAND FORKS – Now that an autumn influx of small, brown moths is over, a UND biology professor says it might be a more common sight in the future as the region’s weather grows warmer by the year.

Observations of abundance changes in one group of insects– for example grasshoppers – say very little about how other types of insects, such as flies, are doing, even in the same place. This is ...

Deception is everywhere in nature. Animals and plants routinely cheat, lie and manipulate for their own benefit. One example ...

I talked about your question with my friend Allan Felsot. He’s an insect scientist at Washington State University. He told me cocoons are mostly silk. But they’re usually made by moths. A butterfly ...

If you plant a garden, they will come. Insects, that is. Frank Lutz, curator of insects at the American Museum of Natural History in New York in the early 20th century, counted almost 1,500 species in ...

Different kinds of bats get bitten by different kinds of bat flies: blind, flightless insects that somehow are able to be picky about the kind of bats they go after. In a study inspired by research ...

Researchers grew cordyceps mushrooms on six different kinds of insects. They found that mushrooms grown amid high levels of oleic fatty acid contained the most cordycepin, a potential therapeutic ...

Native plants are a feast for the eyes and a feast for our native bees and butterflies which need them for food and shelter. The growing popularity of butterfly gardening has spurred sales of native ...

Plummeting insect numbers are becoming a concern. A team of researchers have now demonstrated for the first time that the diversity of food plants for insects in the canton of Zurich has dramatically ...

Tufts welcomed chef Joseph Yoon, the executive director of Brooklyn Bugs Wednesday, April 17, to host an educational workshop on the health and environmental benefits of incorporating insects into the ...