On a 2-foot-long circular track, two cockroaches — each named Herman — raced against each other. Children and parents cheered ...

Insects bite, sting, irritate, and can transmit disease — but they also pollinate flowers, contributing significantly to food production. Are they friends or foes? Join McHenry County College’s next ...

Damselfly, order Odonata, suborder Zygoptera. Editor at Large Nobody went to Colombia to get well in the early 1990s. Actually, few people went there even to visit—what with the drug wars and the ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The UT Arboretum is hosting a Bug Camp at Oak Ridge this week. Rising second through fourth graders are getting the chance to be up-close-and-personal with all kinds of insects.

Bristletail is a name applied to several different kinds of small, wingless insects, all of which have three long, thin appendages at their rear ends; these “tails” often bear lots of little bristles, ...

More than 1,000 third graders from across Tulsa spent Thursday learning about insects up close during the Exploring Insects event hosted by Tulsa Master Gardeners and OSU at Expo Square. TULSA, Okla. ...

Playgrounds can host a variety of natural wonders, and of course, kids. Now some students are not just learning about insects and spiders at school—they are putting them on the map and even ...

Haiku poems have reflected humans' experiences in nature for hundreds of years, including observations of bugs and other wildlife. Recently, researchers analyzed which insects were mentioned the most ...

Did you know maggots can paint, or what fried mealworms taste like - or even what a roach feels like crawling across your hand? Those are just a few of the things third graders could learn at the ...

Jul. 31—Professor Wyatt Hoback's love for bugs sprouted at a young age. "I'm basically Peter Pan," Hoback said. "I was chasing bugs at six, and I'm doing it now." Woback has taught for 10 years in the ...

RACINE — Students in Heidi Vlach’s second-grade summer school reading class at Johnson Elementary School are spending part of their summer learning about insects. The students are using the school’s ...

I remember when people casually referred to all striped invertebrates as “bees,” when all insects were “bugs” and any such thing that buzzed in their vicinity required hosing with lethal poison. Some ...