Nature is full of animals that mimic others — parrots copy human speech, some insects disguise themselves as dangerous ...

Editorial written by Los Angeles Times Board. California’s black bears are clever, resourceful and opportunistic. They eat anything and everything — fruits, nuts, insects, human food and pet food.

Indeed, the call for using insects to improve human food security has gotten louder in recent years. Since about 2004, the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has been interested in the use of ...

Insects are universally unpopular. It is almost human nature to abhor and detest the existence of tiny critters that don't weigh much but can scare away a fully grown adult by simply existing.

As their common name suggests, these tiny insects—none are longer than a dime ... and songs—none of which are audible to the human ear. This ability to communicate with each other helps ...

This research may help predict how climate change will impact insect distribution and behavior. Tiny cold-blooded animals ...

This process was gradual, as humans began to provide these insects with controlled environments ... eventually relying entirely on human care for their survival. Unlike their wild ancestors ...

With 40 tonnes of insects to every human, insects could offer a real solution to the global food crisis, where millions go hungry every day while the meat consumption of the rich draws vast ...

eating insects is going to happen.' We're working towards a future where both people and the planet thrive. Hear from scientists studying human impact and change in the natural world. Spiders may seem ...

Aquatic insects such as mayflies and stoneflies are used to monitor the health of streams and lakes. Table 1: Some human diseases and their insect vectors. Insects seldom become pests in natural ...

The first major evolutionary change in the human diet was the incorporation ... leaves, flowers, bark, insects and meat (e.g., Andrews & Martin 1991; Milton 1999; Watts 2008).