It’s true that most people do not put the words “beautiful” and “insect” together unless they’re thinking of butterflies. But there are beautiful insects out there that are not butterflies. As with ...

Here in Arizona, the monsoon rains will trigger another burst of fresh vegetation in summer, and with it many new species of Insects will emerge. The Iron Cross Beetle, Tegrodera aloga These flashy ...

Soldier beetles hunt for aphids and other small insect pests in marigolds, goldenrod, yarrow, daisies and other flowering plants.(Howard Garrett / Special Contributor) Today, it’s beetle talk. Most ...

About 90% of flowering plants rely on animals to transfer their pollen and optimize reproduction, making pollination one of ...

Last summer, I found a beautiful beetle on the back porch, took a picture and tried to identify it. Without success, I filed it away for another time. Then last week, that time came around. You see, ...

‘I’ve got something for you,” my husband calls from the front door. He’s found an oddly beautiful beetle in the autumn woods. It’s around three-quarters of an inch long, a dark iridescent teal, and ...

You may have walked into your garden recently and found plant leaves decimated or flowers chewed. It’s the season for Japanese beetles — and as you may have already noticed — they are voracious ...

How lovely it is to roll a ball of dung among the pink flowers, accompanied by the one you adore the most. This is an illustration from the 1921 publication, Fabre’s Book of Insects. You can see more ...

The Frost Museum of Science is digging deep with its new exhibit about bugs, called “Bugs.” Alex Miranda, Deco’s own little paleontologist, is here with the deets. We are at the “Bugs” exhibition at ...