The hotter conditions produced more potent toxins in the milkweed. But the researchers said that surprisingly, the parasitic ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — When most people think of the Pennsylvania Farm Show, they’ll think of animals like cows and horses. But some much smaller creatures are also part of the Farm Show, and they ...

Climate warming can impact plant quality, which in turn shapes the nutrition and immune defense of insect herbivores like ...

An injured butterfly can now fly after a wing transplant from a dead insect. The monarch butterfly was brought to Sweetbriar ...

A countryside in southern England has been transformed into a wildlife success story. The rewilding project at Knepp Estate ...

Large butterfly-like insects known as Kalligrammatid lacewings, which fluttered through Eurasian fern- and cycad-filled woodland during the Mesozoic Era, have been extinct for more than 120 million ...

Researchers working with Jurassic fossils from China have discovered insects with remarkably butterfly-like features, even though the species vanished some 40 to 50 million years before the appearance ...

The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World By Oliver Milman, pub. W.W. Norton & Co If the downside to a world without bugs could be summed up in an image, it might be a picture ...

Gardeners are scrambling to help the threatened monarch butterfly by planting more milkweed, the insect's host plant. Drought, loss of habitat and pesticides have decimated stands of milkweed along ...

Monarch butterflies have begun fluttering across Michigan after a migration that began in Mexico. The brightly colored insects have been reported in southeast Michigan, migration watchers say.

Spring never has been more welcome. After more than a year of isolation, spirits across the country are being reinvigorated by daffodils, birdsong and longer days. In the western United States, ...

FARGO — In her more than 20 years of living in south Fargo near Lincoln Elementary School, Laurie Hanson said this year sticks out as one where the bugs are not buzzing. It’s not for lack of trying.