It’s official, Chicagoland. Periodical cicadas have arrived. The large insects, which last emerged in the area 17 years ago, have been spotted in droves in pockets of the city and suburbs. On certain ...

May 16—Anyone who has spent May in the Northland has noticed that, along with the greening of the flora and the warm temperatures, we experience an influx of myriad insects. With the chill early in ...

When conditions get too dry, Madagascar hissing cockroaches like to "cuddle". Under certain conditions, the large insects gather in groups, with many participants in physical contact with one another.

Insects all over the Earth come in all shapes and sizes, from pesky mosquitoes to beautiful butterflies. The teeny tiny fairyfly, for example, grows less than 0.25 inches long, while the stick insect ...

Love them or hate them, cicadas are fascinating insects commonly talked about in North Carolina during the warmer months. Cicadas spend most of their life underground, emerging when soil temperatures ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Large insects have been spotted on the borough’s West Shore, prompting concerns among residents that they may belong to a new, invasive species that could threaten the borough’s ...

One of the earliest signs of spring is probably buzzing around your home. In Texas, most people call them mosquito hawks. They are large insects that show up at the end of winter and seem impossible ...

Foraging greater mouse-eared bats invest more resources in hunting large, difficult-to-catch, ground-dwelling insects over smaller, more easily caught flying insects, despite a greater risk of failure ...