insects

Adult cicadas cover a plant, Monday, May 17, 2021, at Woodend Sanctuary and Mansion, in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Have you seen the Brood X cicadas?

Environment

Trillions of cicadas, underground for the last 17 years, have emerged in numerous eastern and midwestern states to spend a few days above ground climbing onto trees and walls, mating and making a wonderful ruckus.

Two people gather locusts from trees

This start-up turns locust swarms in Kenya into animal feed

Environment
An up close image of an ant in sand

Meet the fastest ants in the world: Saharan silver ants

Science

Jennifer Angus

Arts, Culture & Media

Special Guest: Catherine Chalmers

Arts, Culture & Media

Miya Masaoka

Arts, Culture & Media

When Musician Miya Masaoka tours she often sits in her hotel room for hours, watching her musical collaborators interact. Her collaborators are Madagascar hissing cockroaches. She has another composition that she performs with a chorus of bees. Produced by Michael Raphael.

How to Make a Moth

Arts, Culture & Media

Two artists and programmers built an automated moth generator that turns tweets into gorgeous insects. The only question is: why?

The common housefly makes up just one of 150 families of flies.

‘The Secret Lives of Flies’ provides insight into the diversity of the small insects

Science

They’re possibly the most misunderstood creatures in the animal kingdom, but a recently published book is providing new insight into the fascinating world of flies.

Bees in a bee hive

In Germany, flying insects are disappearing at a rapid rate

Environment

“It’s not just one species, it seems there’s basically a kind of wholesale collapse of wild insects,” says Dave Goulson, a co-author of a new study published in the online journal PLoS ONE on Wednesday.

Rainbow scarab beetle

Dung beetles navigate using the Milky Way and other facts about ‘nature’s recyclers’

Science

You may not envy what dung beetles and carrion beetles dine on, but you live in a world that they help keep clean.