Humans can have extreme reactions when they come across insects – from delight at the sight of a Monarch butterfly to disgust at a scurrying cockroach. But did you know that many insects are too small ...

The smallest insect is a species of featherwing beetle, with the particular specimen that created a buzz in the world of entomology isolated from fungus in Columbia back in 1999. The size of this ...

Four newly described stag beetle fossils from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber in northern Myanmar include three species measuring ...

For all the insects that you see, there are dozens more zipping above your head. Many are too small to catch with the naked eye, and you’d never even know they were there. But every living organism ...

The smallest winged insects are the feather-winged beetles belonging to the taxonomic family Ptiliidae and to the taxonomic tribe Nanosellini. They measure as little as 0.325 mm (0.013 in) long in the ...

There are an estimated 10 quintillion insects alive on Earth at any given time. That's 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 individual insects. But how many species are there, why do we need them, and what ...