If you said “the numeral ‘one’ with 18 zeros attached to it,” you’re correct and you probably have an interest in numbers. If you said “one-tenth of the number of insects in the world” you may – or ...

Get ready for a new kind of cooking class, Iowa. For this culinary instruction, you'll be learning to make wild mushroom risotto with mealworms and chocolate chip cake with cricket flour. Yes, you ...

The terms "bug" and "insect" are commonly used interchangeably in everyday language, yet scientifically, they refer to distinct categories of creatures. Insects belong to the vast class Insecta, ...

For nearly two centuries, a point of Chicago’s civic pride has been its connection to the natural world. One of our mottos, “Urbs in Horto,” extols ours as a city in a garden. Yet not everyone in the ...

Professionals in the green industry, such as grounds maintenance workers or landscapers, need to know how to identify insects, and whether they are beneficial or harmful pests, before knowing if or ...

Wilkes-Barre Academy’s kindergarten class recently visited Frances Slocum State Park to expand their study of insects. Kathy Kelchner, environmental education specialist at the park, provided the ...

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 ...