Of the 160 species found in the United States most are harmless, but large assassin bugs may bite when handled so leave these unusual insects alone to clear your gardens of other insect pests.

Paleobiologist Scott Lakeram analyzes 300-million-year-old coal ball fossils to reveal prehistoric plant-insect interactions ...

Ice crawlers, from the family grylloblatidae, are a “highly unusual group of insects,” a team of scientists concluded in an international study published in the Journal of Insect Biodiversity ...

Some creatures are harmless, yet they often spark revulsion just because of their appearance. One of these is an easy-going insect that feeds primarily on dead vegetative matter: Jerusalem crickets.

The species, native to tropical rainforests of southeast Asia, bears a “striking resemblance to orchid flowers,” Cincinnati Zoo staff said.

The small insect survives the freezing temperatures with unique latency strategies, including both quiescence and diapause. "We developed a method for breeding Antarctic midges in the laboratory ...

Picture an Antarctic animal and most people think of penguins, but there is a flightless midge, the only known insect native to Antarctica, that somehow survives the extreme climate. How the Antarctic ...