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 ...

Horned treehoppers have the horned helmets to help "the treehoppers avoid predation through camouflage or intimidation," according to Nature Journal. 2. How many legs does a monkey slug caterpillar ...

A contender for Britain's largest insect could be the largest UK beetle, the stag beetle ( Lucanus cervus, measuring in at 35 ...

When you look up into the sky and realize that approximately 99.85 percent of the mass of the solar system is concentrated in the sun, it makes all of Earth's creatures—including us humans—look pretty ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Deep in the Waiʻanae mountains of Oʻahu lives one of the strangest creatures ever discovered. And it’s not what you’d expect. It’s a caterpillar. But it doesn’t eat leaves. It doesn ...

One advantage of being an entomologist is that there's never a lack of material for small talk (as it were); with close to a million described insect species, there's an almost inexhaustible supply of ...

As much as you may not want to believe it, insects are poised to be the next big food source. In many parts of the world, they already are. Insects are a normal menu item in several cultures, says ...