Butterflies often appear so delicate and magical that it is hard to imagine them doing anything remotely ordinary, let alone something like going to the toilet. Yet one of the most common questions ...

Driving along a nondescript section of Highway 115 a few miles south of Colorado Springs, it’s hard not to swerve at the sight of a gigantic Hercules beetle, its horns as tall as a house, standing ...

Entomologists are often fascinated by insects from an early age and misunderstood by those around them. They moved forward, ...

How the Chosha praecursor insect may have looked. (Tihelka et al., Nature, 2026) As strange cases of mistaken identity go, this story is a difficult one to beat. A fossil dating back some 324 million ...

Here’s what compound eyes really do — and why flies see you in slow motion. In this episode of Big Ideas, Niba explores how insects actually see the world — from the structure of ommatidia to motion ...