Beetles alone account for almost one-third of the number, about 1.5 million species. By comparison, there are “only” an ...

“Our Voyager is a blue fly that arrives with a giant egg (or “ovo,” in Portuguese) on his back. The whole insect colony ...

New Hampshire Audubon Senior Biologist Pamela Hunt will present "Dragons & Damsels," a talk on dragonflies and damselflies, Friday, March 28, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Francestown Town Hall, second ...

Glen Ellyn-based writer Cindy Crosby led a convocation on the insects Monday at Crispin Hall, hoping that attendees were ...

The estimate of 5.5 million species of insects is interesting. What’s even more remarkable is that because scientists have ...

Every time an inventory of insects and other arthropods is conducted in New Mexico, new species are discovered. The state, home to thousands of native pollinator species, is a “biodiversity hot spot” ...

"When a dragonfly hunts, it hovers perfectly still and positions itself between its prey and a shadow cast behind it by, say, ...

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The Delaware state bug is the ladybug. The state butterfly is the tiger swallowtail. The state bird, of course, is the blue hen. Delaware doesn't have a state dragonfly, but that's about to change.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In this photo provided by the Imperial Household Agency of Japan, Japan’s Prince Hisahito speaks at his ...

He hopes to focus his studies on dragonflies. Apart from researching dragonflies and other insects, Hisahito told reporters he is also interested in studying ways to protect insect populations in ...