Little-understood and vastly underappreciated, insects play an outsize role in supporting life on earth. They pollinate ...

All insects belong to the phylum Arthropoda. But unlike other arthropods—like lobsters, spiders, or millipedes—insects have three pairs of jointed legs, segmented bodies, an exoskeleton ...

Although it won’t be like 2024’s “cicada-geddon,” parts of the U.S. will see another round of the noisy insects again this year — including some Virginians.

In natural and agricultural ecosystems, omnivorous insects are omnipresent. Whether they are 'true omnivores' that require both plant and prey resources to complete their life-cycle, 'herbivores ...