Misunderstood and often feared, insects play a crucial role in nature – something that 31-year-old Wendy Zhang hopes to highlight through art and advocacy.

Encouraging school kids to present their best insect art brings the message to the younger generation. "The art contest was another way we could get the students involved in the festival," McDonnell ...

The strange, soothing art of insect taxidermy (and where to learn it in Chicago) From beetle-pinning classes to possum yoga, the Insect Asylum offers citydwellers a place to commune with nature.

A 2,300-year-old marble statuette discovered in Alexandria, Egypt, has offered new insights into how dwarves were perceived during the Ptolemaic period (332–150 B.C.). Depicting a muscular, nude dwarf ...

Some 500,000 insect species are facing extinction. Poetry, fiction and nonfiction prose can help raise awareness of the essential roles these creatures play in our ecosystems.

Alliums, also known as ornamental onions, add a fun and funky touch to any garden with their round, pom-pom-like ...

Insect Asylum aims to inspire with public cicada art, now on display in Chicago neighborhoods As part of the group’s “Cicada Parade-A” initiative, art sculptures of the creatures are popping ...

Avondale's Insect Asylum celebrates historic cicada season with public art project: 'For us, it's spiritual' To celebrate the historic coinciding of the emerging of two broods, artists can adopt a ...

“Chefs are showing the culinary diversity of insects.” Wade and EII co-founder Alex Carlin, an environmental studies major, have organized the Edible Insect Art Show (April 1–5) to be held in the ...

Cronk Art and Curiosities aims to engage even more Coloradans in insect-centric conservation via art, conversation, and insect pinning classes following a recent move in Downtown Colorado Springs.

A well known Iranian art museum, currently displaying Western paintings for the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, was forced to close due to an insect infestation. The contemporary art ...

Dwarf Fortress is getting a Steam release which adds proper graphics and menus, and the latest video highlights both by taking the bins out.