Many people use 'bug' and 'insect' interchangeably. Scientifically, insects are a broad class. True bugs are a specific order within insects, known as Hemiptera. They have unique piercing-sucking ...

Crawl your way into the fascinating world of insects at ArtScience Museum’s latest exhibition, . Sometimes deemed as pests, ...

When describing a fly, many people think of the ubiquitous house fly (Musca domestica); whereas, some biologists might envision the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). Both are good examples of ...

Discuss the characteristics of insects. (See Activity Answer for more information.) Give each student a copy of the "Insects: Villains or Heroes?" student handout. Ask the class to brainstorm a list ...

This story is adapted from The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World, by Oliver Milman. What, though, if we don’t act quickly enough? If the fall of insects’ tiny empires ...

For human societies, insects are part of a shared ecology involving the gamut of symbiotic relations. Insects (and arthropods ...

The structure of fibrillar flight muscle / D.E. Ashhurst and M.J. Cullen -- Extraction, purification, and localization of [alpha]-actinin from asynchronous insect flight muscle / D.E. Goll [and others ...

Understanding the evolution of insect mating behavior is essential for explaining how early insects adapted to life on land.

People use insect repellents to keep harmful or annoying bugs away. Natural insect repellents do not contain toxic chemicals, and some research indicates they are effective. All pesticides that are ...