Biologists tend to love the caterpillar. This common Connecticut resident is helping researchers, including those at University of Connecticut, understand food webs in our forests and our worldwide ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Other discoveries formally named and described in scientific journals include 131 ...

Entomologist Aaron Pomerantz was walking through the Peruvian Amazon rain forest recently when he noticed something odd: a bunch of yellow growths on the side of a tree. They didn't look like any ...

Now that it is mid-summer, insects and spiders are becoming more obvious as they mature. Grasshoppers are starting to appear. Fall webworm nests are popping up in your trees, sparking unnecessary ...

And that’s just a sample of how those eternally busy ants are closely involved with many other species! There is much more complexity to all these examples than this space allows, and I encourage ...