Many tropical insects are already close to their heat tolerance limits, raising concerns that rising temperatures could disrupt ecosystems.

Here come the bugs and weeds. The warmer temperatures that arrived across much of the Upper Midwest in late May were needed badly. They warmed and dried fields, allowing the sluggish planting pace to ...

Most people look forward to fall for the football, pumpkin spice and cozy sweaters. I look forward to the bugs. Insects and spiders have been a hyper-fixation of mine ever since I started using ...

Similarly, for insects that rely on the insulating properties of the snowpack, low-snow winters can expose them to killing temperatures. And, as with the cooling fudge, if a supercooled insect comes ...

Emerald green with slashes of blue, the green darner dragonfly is among the biggest and fastest of the dragonfly species in North America. You’ve probably seen them darting around bodies of water in ...

I love bugs. I find them so cool and interesting, and they serve a lot of great purposes not only for their ecosystems, but for our lives as well. I know what you’re thinking, “But bugs are ugly and ...