Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Does spit really help with a mosquito bite? And onion with a bee sting? An expert gives answers on how to respond to common insect ...

More than half of all known animal species on Earth are insects — critters with a hard external skeleton, three pairs of jointed legs, antennae and a body divided into three segments (the head, thorax ...

This Hawaiian caterpillar raids spiderwebs camouflaged in insect prey’s body parts, and it’s not above cannibalism in a pinch. Credit: Rubinoff lab/University of Hawaii, Manoa. We think of moths and ...

I love taking selfies with my insect friends. They’re so tiny and look so different from me. But my friend Rich Zack told me that insects and humans have lots in common. He’s an insect scientist at ...

In everyday language, many small creatures get labelled as “creepy-crawlies,” but scientifically, not all of them are insects ...

Comparison of an extinct griffinfly alongside one of the largest living dragonflies, the giant petaltail. (griffinfly credit: Estelle Mayhew, adapted from image by Aldrich Hezekiah. giant petaltail ...