Did you know your lipstick might be made from beetles? Or that some cat food may soon be made from flies? All told, trillions of insects are farmed each year across the globe – more than all other ...

They’re nutritious, affordable, and always in demand. Learn how staffers prepare and deliver thousands of bugs each week to the animals living at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...

Insects live in nearly every habitat, and it’s estimated that there are currently 10 quintillion insects on the globe. So far ...

Treehoppers, small plant-eating insects from the Membracidae family, are gaining interest among scientists due to their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. All three of these discoveries came in the last five years — indications that the more scientists test animals, the more they find ...

Are insects really declining as badly as previous studies have forecasted? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as an international team of more than a dozen researchers ...

Animals living in cities are consistently bolder, more aggressive, and less fearful of humans than their rural counterparts.

There are just some things that insert themselves where they are unwanted, and when plants and animals insert themselves into areas they aren't supposed to be in it can damage an ecosystem. Tennessee ...