It’s true that most people do not put the words “beautiful” and “insect” together unless they’re thinking of butterflies. But there are beautiful insects out there that are not butterflies. As with ...

Comet moths lead tragically short lives, but leave behind an incredible legacy until it's time for them to die off.

Welcoming butterflies to your garden is beneficial for the ecosystem. Here is one way to use outdated potting soil to ...

Tucked deep in Fernbank’s WildWoods trail, Levon Biss’ special touring macrophotography exhibit “Extinct and Endangered: Insects in Peril” features large prints of the United Kingdom photographer’s ...

Butterflies and moths are some of the most beautiful insects on Earth. They also play an important role in keeping ecosystems healthy. They are pollinators, which move pollen from one flower to ...

To the casual observer, the flight of monarch butterflies may seem as random as a puff of wind. In backyards and gardens, they flutter from flower to flower until the wind lifts them off again in a ...

We rarely see insects in close up, unless we wake up from a nap outside on a spring day and find one creeping slowly across our eyeball, various proboscii dripping. And even (perhaps especially!) in ...

While many plants are pollinated by bees and butterflies, they naturally play favorites. These plants offer beautiful blooms ...

Residents of a community in California are doing the neighborly thing by looking out for a winged neighbor.Folks who live in Hollywood Hills, California, are doing their part to help protect monarch ...

At any given moment, it’s estimated that 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) individual insects are alive and kicking on planet Earth. We don’t blame you if you’re not a fan of them all—but ...