With 11,000 species of insects known in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, how do you write a guide to them? Jim and Leslie Costa have a unique idea ...

This spring and summer, across the Midwest and Southeast United States, cicadas will crawl out of their underground burrows by the trillions to mate — due to two different broods of these wingèd ...

For over half a century, Nikon’s Small World competition has been a celebration of the hidden dimensions of life. Each year, ...

Deep under the Jurassic rock beds of New South Wales, scientists discovered fossilized insects that push back the history of ...

Nikon has announced the winners of its 2025 Small World photomicrography competition, gathering images from all around the ...

Q:I live on 40 acres in western Sonoma County. I keep a small garden and mixed fruit tree orchard. Last summer, there was a huge number of yellow jackets on the land - rather annoying when one tried ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Amber found in the Amazon forest region of Ecuador containing a trove of well-preserved fossils of wasps, midges, flies, beetles and other insects is giving a glimpse ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — It was after their tiny plane crashed into the Bolivian jungle earlier this week that their ordeal really began. After smashing into the ground, the aircraft flipped over into a ...

I don’t usually get the typical creepy-crawly feeling when it comes to wildlife, excluding snakes and very large spiders.