LONDON (AP) — Cirque du Soleil’s show “Ovo,” Portuguese for “egg,” brings to life a colorful ecosystem teeming with insects.

It’s late summer, and the dog-day cicadas (Tibicen canicularis, identifiable by its large size and black-and-olive-green pattern on the back of the thorax) are making themselves known. The males, ...

Photographer Thorben Danke combines hundreds of shots to create breathtaking images of the tiny creatures Joe Spring - Former Associate Editor, Science An unidentified fly from the order Diptera, ...

The South has the ideal environment — warm and moist — for most insects to thrive in. This week's topic was for nature and critter lovers who take time to notice details in the smaller beings around ...

Discover interesting facts about insects, the critters whose combined weight on the planet is 70 times that of all humans. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...