Water bugs look like big cockroaches, but they're a completely different species. And they bite. Here's how to tell these two insects apart.

On a dry day in Madagascar, hissing cockroaches do something unexpectedly sweet: they huddle together in slow-moving bundles of roach cuddles. A new study in Ethology shows these clusters aren't ...

While many Westerners find the idea of eating beetles or crickets unappetizing, this view is actually a global outlier. For roughly two billion people worldwide, eating insects — known as entomophagy ...

Many tropical insects are already close to their heat tolerance limits, raising concerns that rising temperatures could disrupt ecosystems.

The further south you go, the bigger the bugs. Heat has a dramatic effect on the growth rate of some species, and North Carolina is home to some of the largest insects in America. From beetles to ...