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Insects Are Disappearing And Your Dinner Is Going To Suffer
Wild insects are better at pollinating crops than captive honeybees trucked into fields by humans, new research suggests. Crashing populations of wild insects could spell disaster for our food supply,...
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Invasive Ant Colonies Are Being Invaded By Other Invasive Ants
One of the most aggressive invasive ants in the world seems to have met its match in North Carolina — but if the arthropod challenger prevails, don’t expect it to play niceThe Argentine ant has spread...
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NJ Greyhound Bus Evacuated After Passengers Discover Roach Infestation
A Greyhound bus traveling to New York City had to pull over Friday when its 48 passengers discovered it was infested with roaches.The insects "bolted out of cracks and crevices,"NBC New York reported,...
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THE 17-YEAR CICADAS ARE COMING
Sometime in April or May of this year, a swarm of insects called Brood II Cicadas will rise from the earth and fill the skies all across the Northeast, from Virginia to Connecticut.It sounds like a...
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The Warm Air Of Cities Creates Bug Infestations
We often think of cities as dampening zones for wildlife, with bustling human activity and inhospitable concrete surfaces keeping many critters at a distance. But in reality the opposite might be the...
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22-Foot Wasp Nest Found In An Abandoned Home In Spain
Neighbors in a village on Spain’s Canary Islands called the authorities worrying what might be inside an abandoned house. What the police found was a nearly 22-foot wasp nest thought to house millions...
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Magnified Photos Of Earth's Most Underappreciated Animals
We all have our favorite animals — these are usually soft, cuddly, and are able to show affection with great big licks.The beauty of smaller, less fluffy animals, like bees and flies, however, is often...
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Silly Moth, You Aren't A Spider
If you come across the Lygodium Spider Moth, don't be afraid.It's just a moth, after all. The fascinating bug was discovered in Thailand in 2005, and is described in the journal Annals Of The...
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The Cicadas Are Almost Here!
If you go outside on a quiet day, you might just hear the grass making a slight rustle as if it was sentient.That's the sign of a vast birth taking place underground, as millions of cicadas crawl their...
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These Flying Robot Flies Will Haunt You [VIDEO]
Insects are the most mystifying flying creatures on earth. They can hover, easily move in any direction, and artfully but maddeningly dodge a fly swatter.And they have inspired a group of engineers to...
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17-Year Cicadas Will Overrun The East Coast Any Day Now
Any day now, if the weather behaves, wooded areas along the Atlantic coast will be thick with red-eyed, orange-winged bugs that have not seen daylight since 1996.The 17-year cicadas spend most of their...
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The First Cicadas Have Been Spotted On The Upper West Side
They're here!The first 17-year cicadas from the group known as Brood II were spotted on the Upper West Side on Wednesday, according to the "Swarmageddon" map created by WNYC's RadioLab. A handful of...
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UNITED NATIONS: Starving People Should Eat Bugs
A new 200-page report from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations suggests that if more people incorporate insects into their diet, we could reduce world hunger, food...
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These Insect Dishes Are The Solution To World Hunger [PHOTOS]
A new 200-page report from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations says that we should all be adding insects into our diet.Even though we're raised to believe bugs in our food...
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PROFESSOR: Here's Why Insects Won't Solve World Hunger
A new report from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said that eating insects, known as entomophagy, can reduce world hunger. Not everyone agrees: Insect eater and researcher Tom...
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'Crazy Ants' That Eat Electrical Equipment Are Taking Over The Southeast
A new invasion of circuitry-eating "crazy ants" is beginning to wreak havoc in the Southeastern US."These ants, commonly called Rasberry crazy ants, probably will be the worse insect that we've ever...
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Here Are Some Great-Tasting And Totally Edible Bugs
Last week, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization suggested that edible insects could help secure the global food supply, fight world hunger, reduce greenhouse gases, and help save the...
View ArticleThis Cicada Live Cam Will Gross You Out
The 17-year cicadas are taking over the East Coast, and there's nothing we can do about it. (They've already been spotted in New York!)So, Animal Planet decided to embrace the unstoppable cicada...
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Prime Numbers Are The Secret To The Cicada's Success
“Periodical cicadas have the longest life cycles known for insects. They are called ‘periodical’ because in any one population all but a trivially small fraction are exactly the same age. The nymphs...
View ArticleThis Beautiful Video Will Make You Fall In Love With Cicadas
While we may have only been thinking about cicadas for a few months, with the arrival of the Brood II population, Samuel Orr has been thinking about them for years.He's been working on a documentary...
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