Like the males of many animal species, male Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies, a commonly studied lab animal, are aggressive toward one another and even fight when competing for resources such as ...

Some foods are rather blunt about what is included while other foods hide it in the ingredients label. However, these are some foods you might not know contain edible insects.

There’s a place in Chicago where bugs are the celebrities, and most people have no idea it’s even there. The Insect Asylum in ...

A few dark specks on a sheet, windowsill, or skirting board can make an ordinary room feel suddenly suspect. The reaction is usually immediate and deeply familiar. Disgust arrives first, closely ...

Join Old Bakery Beer Company in Alton for the Buzz'd Beer Festival supporting Sierra Club and insect pollinators, featuring music, food, and 50+ drinks samples.

To use this evidence, investigators typically must grow the larvae until adulthood in a laboratory setting and then identify ...

On a typical day, they greet farmers bringing them ticks, real estate agents with mysterious roaches and anxious homeowners ...

When most people picture a bee, they imagine a small black insect with a fuzzy body, yellow stripes and glossy dark eyes. But beyond the classic black-and-yellow pattern mutant bees exist that defy ...

For centuries, the Illinois Natural History Survey has worked to catalog and preserve the organisms that make up Illinois. The INHS maintains its mission to research the history and diversity of ...

ABSTRACT: African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) strongly modify vegetation structure by creating natural clearings, yet the consequences of these habitat modifications for threatened ...