In this particular exhibition at the Staten Island Museum, even the pink of the walls comes from bugs — in the form of lac, a coloring produced by scale insects (it’s the same natural dye used as ...

Activities of ticks, mosquitoes, chiggers and more start increasing in the spring. Here are tips for protecting yourself from ...

For the past 17 years, they've been underground, never moving more than 3 feet, sipping tree root sap and excavating tunnels ...

In alpha-gal syndrome, the immune system overreacts to a sugar known as galactose-α-1,3-galactose, or "alpha-gal" for short.

A hummingbird chick in Panama mimics a poisonous caterpillar to avoid predators—a rare case of bird-to-insect mimicry. When ...

Millions of cicadas are poised to make a major resurgence this season as they emerge from the ground after more than a decade ...

Every major streaming service has a horde of new movies and TV shows arriving next month.

It has almost been a year since the last emergence of cicadas in Tennessee. Now, brood XIV is set to reemerge in the Eastern ...

Researchers said the species was “abundant” but “difficult to capture” as it evaded their light traps in the tree canopy.

Get ready for an insect phenomenon that has been 17 years in the making. Starting this spring, when temperatures are warm ...

Our gardens, often seen as personal sanctuaries of beauty and tranquility, are in fact bustling microcosms of the larger ...

I remember watching “Gone With the Wind” for the first time on my parents' back porch, the cicadas and katydids weaving a ...