“We’ve known for a long time that herbivores do eat other insects, but so far people studying herbivory have kind of ignored that because it’s a lot easier to put herbivores in a neat bin in which ...

It highlights the vast number of insect species, their feeding behaviors, and their impact on both plants and human food supplies. Examples include the grasshopper's voracious appetite ...

Butterflies and caterpillars frequently host parasitoids, insects that attack and destroy their hosts, sometimes eating them alive. These are usually wasps, laying their own eggs inside an egg, ...

with a wingspan stretching up to 27 centimetres across - that’s wider than a human handspan. And the caterpillars of the species reach up to 12 centimetres long, spending every spare second eating.