Akito Y. Kawahara is an associate professor and curator of insects at the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida. Megan Ennes is an assistant curator of museum education at the ...

Associate Professor and Curator of Insects, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida Insects are everywhere – in backyards, balconies and the park down the street. In fact, numerically ...

Many people go out of their way to avoid creepy crawling insects on a daily basis. But for folks attending Bug Maine-ia at the Maine State Museum, Tuesday was a celebration of bugs and their ...

Rhiannon Giles Durham’s 11-year-old daughter has a common fear of bees and spiders: cautious because of the sting-and-bite potential but recognizing that if the critters are treated with respect, they ...

Producing meat pollutes and requires a lot of space and resources (water, grains . . . ). To protect the planet, we must therefore find new sources of protein. One of the solutions is to replace, at ...

Scientists who study bugs are thinking harder about how to turn them into good food. By JoAnna Klein Repeat after me: entomophagy. It’s derived from Greek and Latin: “entomon,” meaning “insect,” and ...

It’s spring in Central Texas. The wildflowers have popped up, the trees have turned green again, and cool, breezy evenings cap off pleasant days (if only for a while). But with spring also comes the ...

Q. How can I keep the beetles away and keep the invisible insects from eating holes in my rose leaves? The beetles have not been too bad the last couple of years, but the holes in the leaves never ...