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 ...

SAN ANTONIO – For the past 10 summers, a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service entomologist has been sharing her love of insects, nature and science with Bexar County youth. “Each summer we conduct ...

Around a quarter of people are scared of insects and/or spiders. This phobia is quite strange, really, as deep down, we know that most of these tiny creatures can’t hurt us, and yet we still can’t ...

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. ...

Eating insects is considered as disgusting or even primitive in Western societies but elsewhere, 2 billion people consume insects on a regularly basis. Now, according to a report released by the UN ...

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 ...

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 ...

Entomologists say insects are declining at alarming rates — one major study estimates we’re losing 2% in total insect biomass every year. Now, the National Academy of Sciences is preparing to embark ...

I wrote my first story — on my own just because I wanted to — when I was 7 years old and in second grade. Ten years later, at 17 years old and a student in my high school’s journalism class, I wrote ...