Standing 6 feet tall and stretching 8 feet from her antennae to her shapely, six-jointed rear legs, Mildred is arguably the largest praying mantis you will ever encounter. She is also the most ...

Camp Hill Middle School science teacher Chad Gallaher has been teaching what has become a rite of passage for Camp Hill seventh graders for 25 years. “It’s an insect project,” Gallaher said from his ...

A new photography initiative is building a collection of high-resolution insect images and placing them online for anyone to download and use for free. The project, named "Insects Unlocked," was ...

There are more kinds of insects in the world than all other organisms combined! Insects live on the earth's surface, in the soil, and in water - in deserts, rain forests, hot springs, snow fields, and ...

It has come to light that an ongoing research program funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is working on a project using gene-editing techniques like CRISPR to infect ...

The U.S. government's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been accused of trying to create a new class of biological weapons that would be delivered via virus-infected insects. The ...

The concept of soldier ants may not be far away from a U.S. Department of Defense proposal to field an army of remote-controlled insect-cyborg scouts. The Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical ...

Robert Musundire receives funding from the AgriFoSe2030 programme, funded by the Swedish International Development Agency. He is affiliated with Department of Crop Science and Postharvest Technology, ...