Insects may sometimes seem like a scourge on humanity, but without them, our lives would look very different. The quintillions of insects that inhabit our world help feed us, clothe us and have ...
JUNEAU, Alaska — One thing is certain about the majority of Alaska’s aquatic insects: they won’t be winning any beauty contests. These crawlers, swimmers and graspers boast characteristics such as ...
"There are more than 200 million insects for every human living on the planet today. As you sit reading this sentence, between 1 quadrillion and 10 quadrillion insects are shuffling and crawling and ...
The objects of this little book are to aid its users in identifying and learning something about the larger insects in the British Isles. Owing to the number of species—more than twenty thousand—the ...
It was a kind of quest, with a cast of characters like the Unicorn Clubtail, Coppery Emerald, Arrowhead Spiketail and Umber Shadowdragon, names straight out of a sword-and-sorcery novel. But biologist ...
News flash gardeners. We have a new, comprehensive resource to help manage bugs in the vegetable garden. Susan Mulvihill, my Spokesman-Review colleague and co-author with me of the “Northwest Garden’s ...
They may not be as large or deadly as a Tyrannosaurus Rex, but ancient insects are just as fascinating and tell scientists a lot about the ancient and modern worlds – and even the future of our planet ...
No one is more enthusiastic about a cicada, their physical feats or insects as a whole, than Nicole Parish. And that's in ...
A butterfly found perfectly preserved inside a Cambridge University library book may have been there for almost 400 years. Head of Library Services at Trinity College Jenni Lecky-Thompson was shocked ...
Chicago? In a famous poem, Emily Dickinson wrote, “I heard a fly buzz when I died.” And according to the forensic entomologists who examine murder scenes for insect evidence, there’s a good chance ...
A butterfly that could be almost 400 years old has been discovered pressed between the pages of an ancient library book at Cambridge University. The perfectly preserved specimen, thought to be a small ...
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