JUNEAU, Alaska — One thing is certain about the majority of Alaska’s aquatic insects: they won’t be winning any beauty contests. These crawlers, swimmers and graspers boast characteristics such as ...

Insects may sometimes seem like a scourge on humanity, but without them, our lives would look very different. The quintillions of insects that inhabit our world help feed us, clothe us and have ...

The objects of this little book are to aid its users in identifying and learning something about the larger insects in the British Isles. Owing to the number of species—more than twenty thousand—the ...

They may not be as large or deadly as a Tyrannosaurus Rex, but ancient insects are just as fascinating and tell scientists a lot about the ancient and modern worlds – and even the future of our planet ...

It was a kind of quest, with a cast of characters like the Unicorn Clubtail, Coppery Emerald, Arrowhead Spiketail and Umber Shadowdragon, names straight out of a sword-and-sorcery novel. But biologist ...

News flash gardeners. We have a new, comprehensive resource to help manage bugs in the vegetable garden. Susan Mulvihill, my Spokesman-Review colleague and co-author with me of the “Northwest Garden’s ...

JUNEAU -- One thing is certain about the majority of Alaska's aquatic insects: they won't be winning any beauty contests. These crawlers, swimmers and graspers boast characteristics such as sucking ...

FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas -- The chief of the Medical Zoology Branch at the Army Medical Department Center and School, Fort Sam Houston makes it his mission to teach Soldiers about bugs, the diseases ...

If the arthropods ever decide to hire a spokesman to work with homo sapiens, there's a pretty good chance that Barrett Klein will be on the shortlist. Not only has the University of Wisconsin-La ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the crown jewel of the Southern Appalachians, an ancient landscape teeming with life, including what naturalist and explorer William Bartram in 1791 called ...