Mosquitoes and blackflies are among nature’s most obnoxious insects — known for relentlessly biting and buzzing around your head with little to no mercy. However, one TikToker just discovered a ...

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Water bugs are not something you want to see making their home in your home and you’ll want a speedy way to get rid of them even if it’s just a solo specimen you’ve spotted scurrying away – and that’s ...

Many people use 'bug' and 'insect' interchangeably. Scientifically, insects are a broad class. True bugs are a specific order within insects, known as Hemiptera. They have unique piercing-sucking ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

I love bugs. I find them so cool and interesting, and they serve a lot of great purposes not only for their ecosystems, but for our lives as well. I know what you’re thinking, “But bugs are ugly and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Like clockwork, every fall they want in. The best way to identify boxelder trees is to examine their leaves and seeds on female trees. (Nancy Downs, Colorado ...

“Look at that bug!” is something most of us have said without a second thought, whether we’re pointing at a beetle, a fly, or a suspicious-looking speck on the windowsill. However, if you’re being ...

Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...

The wheel bug distinguishes itself by displaying a ‘half wheel cog’ upright and perpendicular on its back. There was a strange looking bug that fell out of our oak tree earlier last week. It was ...

A little chemistry, a little coding and a whole lot of mating are just part of the story behind summer’s tiny fireworks show: the lightning bug. “Fireflies have adapted the ability to glow and flash ...