During the Chalk Age (60 to 150 million years ago) the air must have swarmed with all kinds of insects—but for some mysterious reason fossil evidence of Chalk Age bugs is rare almost to the ...

In the video game The Last of Us and its spin-off HBO series, humans fight to survive against cordyceps, a parasitic fungus ...

These crawling (and sometimes flying) critters can quickly go from an occasional nuisance to a full-blown infestation in South Carolina homes if not properly addressed. Here’s what to know about ...

A photographer out to get shots of lightning Saturday found a field full of rarely seen lightning bugs near Clearmont, ...

At Bernheim Forest and Arboretum, volunteer naturalist Bill Napper has identified 13 species of fireflies, including the rare blue ghost (Phausis reticulata). Primarily found in the Appalachian ...

Jannique Mulder-Slater is a 16-year-old aspiring entomologist from Bocabec, N.B., who found three rare cecropia moths in her ...

Wild populations of the rare Maccoa duck, an African wetland species, have been dwindling for decades. There numbers are ...

Test your knowledge of lightning bugs and learn how you can help continue the summertime light show. Join a firefly hike with ...