Want to know your birth month backyard animal and the symbolic meaning behind it? Here's a guide to all 12, and what they say ...

The flesh-eating parasite, the New World screwworm, was detected this month in the Mexican state of Nuevo León, just 90 miles ...

Placing small stones in a bug cage is beneficial when raising pill bugs, a type of woodlouse. Researchers at the University ...

A world without insects and birds is unimaginable. Every terrestrial ecosystem would collapse without insects and countless species would go extinct. A monarch butterfly. Credit: Derek Ramsey / ...

Which bugs are edible? Options include crickets and grasshoppers — and they’re surprisingly high in protein and low in carbs.

Typically, engineers perform surgery to implant electrodes into the insects’ antennae. The antennae contain sensors for smell ...

The method that was used to eradicate the fly is known as the sterile insect technique (SIT). This involves breeding vast ...

Most love stories don’t start with mutual wing consumption. But for one species of wood-eating cockroach found in Asia, ...

Monkeys living on Gibraltar have developed a unique coping mechanism for their junk food habit: swallowing soil to quell ...

Barbary macaques are munching on junk food ‘extremely rich in calories, sugar, salt, and dairy,’ say researchers ...

Monkeys in Gibraltar steal chips, ice cream, and cookies–and then eat dirt. Researchers have now taken a closer look at this ...