There are multiple ways to measure size: body and leg length, weight, volume, wingspan, and even horn size. We have shared all of these different measures for determining the largest insects in ...

Insects don’t have lungs. Their blood-like hemolymph doesn’t carry oxygen. Instead, they take in oxygen through a row of ...

The red, lumpy body shape resembles ... Perhaps one of the clumsiest insects to be spotted in gardens in late spring and ...

A handful of new studies moves the needle toward a consensus on the long-disputed question of whether insect wings evolved from legs or from the body wall, but the devil is in the details. Jef Akst ...