Make no mistake about Amanda Dorset’s affection for Beetles, and I’m not talking about the insect. She has a thing for the car, the one made by Volkswagen. Her office at home in Maplewood is decorated ...

A shiny purple creature crawled around the inside of a tree near a palace in Bhutan. Perhaps the “stout” insect’s tree-dwelling lifestyle helped it go unnoticed. Or maybe the nearby palace simply ...

Six years ago, a summertime glimpse of the Halfway Creek wetlands on Brice Prairie revealed a vista of stunning violet. The cause was purple loosestrife, a plant native to Eurasia that spread with ...

Purple loosestrife is a deceitfully pretty flower disrupting Indiana wetlands. Ravenous beetles, imported from overseas, ...

Have you been wondering about those roadside wildflowers that in the last few weeks have burst into a sea of purple? Let me introduce you to purple loosestrife, also known as lythrum salicaria. Do not ...

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 ...

Spruce bark beetles hijack their host tree’s chemical defenses, transforming them into potent weapons against fungal threats.

Franz Kafka never realized how close he came to kickstarting a superhero franchise. Ever since Gregor Samsa awoke in his bed to find himself transformed into a monstrous dung beetle in “The ...

This page contains a full insect list for Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town. This is a sortable Insect table that you can use to complete your bug list! 1 アゲハチョウ(ナミアゲハ) Swallowtail Butterfly Bug ...

Scientists found a purple animal with a “remarkably big body” and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo shows a representative area of Punakha. Photo from Nihar Modi via Unsplash A shiny ...

Franz Kafka never realized how close he came to kickstarting a superhero franchise. Ever since Gregor Samsa awoke in his bed to find himself transformed into a monstrous dung beetle in “The ...