On a 2-foot-long circular track, two cockroaches — each named Herman — raced against each other. Children and parents cheered ...

Distinguished Professor of Entomology Jay Rosenheim noticed a trend during his office hours a few years ago: Many of his undergraduate students wanted research lab experience but were unsure how to ...

Parasitic wasps of the genus Trichogramma are among the smallest insects in the world—yet they play an important role in ...

Explore the world of insects by adding an entomology minor to your graduate degree. This program is specially designed for students pursuing graduate research involving insects. You will deepen your ...

Forensic entomology harnesses the life cycles and behaviours of insects to provide critical evidence in death investigations, particularly for estimating the post‐mortem interval (PMI). At its core, ...

Insects make up to 90% of all animal species on the planet, and most of them can be found in the tropics, the regions around ...

Entomologist Wizzie Brown advises residents to prepare for increased insect activity this spring, while emphasizing that the majority of insects found in the landscape are beneficial to the ...

The putrefying flesh of a dead animal is as unpleasant to scientists as to anyone else. As a result, relatively little research has been done on the decay processes that can rapidly reduce a dead body ...

A worldwide compilation of insect abundance studies shows the number of land-dwelling insects is in decline. On average, there is a global decrease of 0.92 percent per year, which translates to ...

As winter phases into spring across the U.S., gardeners are laying in supplies and making plans. Meanwhile, as the weather warms, common garden insects such as bees, beetles and butterflies will ...

Blooming flowers provide natural nectar sources, but hummingbirds primarily eat bugs, including an assortment of gnats, mosquitoes, crane flies, midges and spiders.