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We are often told that something we can do to fight climate change, is to eat less meat or dairy. While there are certainly greenhouse gas issues with animal production, it is not that simple. But ...

The petrol-blue wings of a swallowtail butterfly, soft fur of a giant Patagonian bumblebee, and oil-painted smudges of a ladybug are some of the details captured by British photographer Levon Biss in ...

All insects belong to the phylum Arthropoda. But unlike other arthropods—like lobsters, spiders, or millipedes—insects have three pairs of jointed legs, segmented bodies, an exoskeleton, one pair of ...

BRAINERD — Many of us in Central Minnesota are proud of our properties. Whether we’re gardeners, farmers, or lakeshore owners, our land sustains us as we watch our living handiwork grow. But our land ...

The cycle of human life - birth, death and everything in between, including folly, greed, futility and other shortcomings - are symbolized pessimistically through the insect world in the 1922 satire ...

A new analysis of insect abundance surveys finds the decline may not be as dire as previously thought. Photo by Charles J Sharp via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Since 2018, news of an ...

What initially draws my eyes to the tall, stalky plant growing near the Oconaluftee Visitor Center in Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the round, green bulge in a stem near its crown. Called ...

In 2017, scientists in the UK carried out research suggesting that the small brain of the bumblebee may be more sophisticated than we realize, demonstrating how they could be trained to roll balls ...

Discover interesting facts about insects, the critters whose combined weight on the planet is 70 times that of all humans. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...