CHAMPAIGN — A single leafhopper is small, but the task at hand is enormous. Scientists at the Illinois Natural History Survey in Champaign, part of the Prairie Research Institute at the University of ...
A giant lacewing found at an Arkansas Walmart in 2012 is being heralded as the first specimen of its kind seen in eastern North America in more than 50 years. By Emily Schmall It took the Covid-19 ...
BEIJING, July 25 (UPI) --Previously, the most ancient evidence of bloodsucking insects was 100 million years old. But researchers in China have unearthed a number of bug specimens that date to 130 ...
A new bug is joining the shelves of the Museum of Comparative Zoology’s 7-million-strong insect collection, one made not of antennae and exoskeleton, but of wires and lenses: “Lightning Bug,” a ...
I know there are people out there that are into bugs…Jame Gumb (aka Buffalo Bill) and Gil Grissom for example—but this crap is just gross. Nonetheless, if you are a budding entomologist you will ...
The Natural History Museum is collaborating with Diamond Light Source, the UK's national synchrotron science facility, on an ambitious project to generate and share immense data from the Museum's vast ...
UNIVERSITY PARK, Penn. (Gray News) – A giant insect found outside an Arkansas Walmart is setting historic records. The Polystoechotes punctata, or giant lacewing, was reportedly found in 2012 by ...
At first glance, the insect trapped in golden resin looked like any other tiny victim of deep time. Only under close ...
Alive or dead, rare or mundane, bugs are weirdly easy to find for sale online. However, in some cases, the insects or spiders sold through the various e-commerce sites, both niche and large-scale, may ...