Creepy-crawly may be what children think of when envisioning or encountering bugs. Forest Preserve District of Will County hosts a traveling exhibit designed to change that. Organized by Purdue ...

Akito Y. Kawahara is an associate professor and curator of insects at the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida. Megan Ennes is an assistant curator of museum education at the ...

Insects are everywhere – in backyards, balconies and the park down the street. In fact, numerically speaking, insects dominate the Earth with more than 5.5 million species. An estimated 10 quintillion ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The UT Arboretum is hosting a Bug Camp at Oak Ridge this week. Rising second through fourth graders are getting the chance to be up-close-and-personal with all kinds of insects.

CINCINNATI (WKRC) -- Critters invaded Union Terminal for the Cincinnati Museum Center's Annual Bugfest. The museum center teamed up with the zoo and the University of Cincinnati to celebrate bugs and ...

Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with advertisers on this site. Applying insect repellents whenever you might cross paths with mosquitoes or ticks is one of the best ways to protect ...

CARSON CITY -- First off, kids, black widow spiders have eight legs, and that makes them arachnids, not insects, so they are out of the running in the contest to pick Nevada's official state insect.