Crickets, bugs, worms: It’s what’s for dinner!

Chef David George Gordon spends many of his days on the road, donning his apron and sautéing, frying and roasting fare for cooking demonstrations around the country.

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Mini helicopter masters insect navigation trick

The micro-copter uses a simple optical trick to fly gracefully (Image: Hubert Raguet)

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A beetle apparently protects itself by constructing armor made from excrement, researchers now reveal.

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Bug spray that produces a fog to kill insects is likely to blame for the death of a 10-month-old boy, and his 2-year-old brother was critically injured by the fumes, authorities said.

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To work in bogong moth season in Parliament House is to be surrounded by death, corpses and confused survivors huddled in clumps in corners.

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A single, incredibly well-preserved specimen of the tiny but scary-looking fly was preserved for eternity in Burmese amber, and it had a small horn emerging from the top of its head, topped by three eyes that would have given it the ability to see predators coming.

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In her latest book, Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink, she writes, "There are surely plants and animals living in the remote places beyond our current knowledge. There are discoveries yet to be made."

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Australian and UK researchers have used high-speed photography to reveal the complex nature of insect flight.

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Canola crops on parts of South Australia's lower Eyre Peninsula are being threatened by a potentially devastating pest which is resistant to registered insecticides.

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The aptly named silk worms long appeared to have the monopoly on insect silk production, but now scientists are revealing that the world of insect silks is highly complex.

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Descendants of the lost UK bumblebee will be brought from New Zealand to Dungeness in what could be a landmark repopulation programme

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Sustainable and nutritious, it's time insects were seen as another source of protein. The problem is how to make them desirable

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Chilli Thrips have taken their toll on plants throughout the peninsula, and the folks at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences County Extension Service in Largo are seeing a rise in complaints.

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Members of the Stamford Police Department said Tuesday that their headquarters is overrun with bugs and that some people who have been bitten even got sick.

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A Non-camper's Guide - Part 9, Pesky Pests

From these articles, you may think that camping is one long battle against one creature or another, the elements, or some outrageous nuisance, but camping is a lot more than just living through something to achieve a feeling of accomplishment.

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Murders...but Meadows Too; My City Offers the Best and the Worst ~ Part II

Today I went back to the woods near my home in Philadelphia. I hadn't been there since last Saturday when, as I explained in Part I, the following occurred in my city:

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The stunning metallic green sheen of the "jewelled beetle" is produced by microscopic cells in its exoskeleton.

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Honeybees sterilise their hives with antimicrobial resin, scientists have discovered.

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Some species of moths may have evolved a defensive ultrasonic clicking technique that can temporarily disrupt the echolocation signals of bats

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Honeybee hordes use two weapons - heat and carbon dioxide - to kill their natural enemies, giant hornets. Japanese honeybees form "bee balls" - mobbing and smothering the predators.

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A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered. Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same interrelated colony, and will refuse to fight one another.

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The Harlequin ladybird is putting over 1,000 species in the UK in peril, scientists have warned.

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Today, when eating my meagre dinner of Progresso Chicken and Wild Rice soup, I was surprised to discover a gift, a little something extra that I hadn't purchased. At least not knowingly, nor intentionally.

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Ball's Pyramid is fairly amazing at first glance. However it wasn't until 2001 on a much closer inspection of the island, that scientists realized just how amazing the island, and its inhabits, really were

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Firefly populations may be dwindling - but you may be able to lend these magical insects a helping hand. Here's how to entice the insects to give you a light show in your own yard and help scientists track fireflies' whereabouts.

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Firefly populations may be dwindling - but you may be able to lend these magical insects a helping hand. Here's how to entice the insects to give you a light show in your own yard and help scientists track fireflies' whereabouts.

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Volunteers were called on today to join an annual summer bat count in New Jersey that could further determine how many have fallen to the enigmatic "white-nose syndrome" responsible for devastating their Northeastern populations.

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