A team of hilariously unqualified namers is tasked with naming insects, leading to a chaotic mix of logic, fear, and personal grievances. Some choices make sense—like naming a fly because it ...

Read more about beetles, in general, here. The stick insects (also known by many other names, including walking sticks, leaf insects, and ghost insects) are a vast order of insects that consists ...

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 ...

Scientists who study insects, called entomologists, are coming up with ever more imaginative names, referencing everything from musicians to childish jokes, to meet the demand. Early humans needed ...

Stick bugs are also commonly called: Stick insects Walking sticks Bug sticks These names are all based on the fact that the stick bug’s long body resembles a living stick or the stalk of a leaf.

AMES, Iowa – A farmer notices an unfamiliar insect on a leaf. Is this a pollinator? Or a pest? Good news at harvest time? Or bad? Need to be controlled? Or not? That farmer can snap a picture, use a ...

These noxious emissions can kill other insects, or startle potential predators into backing off. These chemical “bombs” are the source of their name: Bombardier beetles. But there’s not just ...

In natural and agricultural ecosystems, omnivorous insects are omnipresent. Whether they are 'true omnivores' that require both plant and prey resources to complete their life-cycle, 'herbivores ...

The sterile insect technique is an environmentally-friendly insect pest control method involving the mass-rearing and sterilization, using radiation, of a target pest, followed by the systematic ...

Insect-pollination of flowering plants is responsible for the majority of the world’s flowering diversity and is an essential part of plant reproduction. Flowers have bright colours, smells and ...