Taylor Swift is now the namesake of a genus of plant-feeding insects from Australia that were previously unknown to science. Sarah Schroeder, a UC Riverside doctoral student in entomology, hopes that ...

Taylor Swift, the award-winning billionaire singer and songwriter, is getting a new honor: The megastar is the namesake of several recently discovered species of plant-feeding insects from Australia.

Ancient fossils suggest insects conquered land through a long amphibious phase rather than making an abrupt jump from water to dry ground. A newly identified 324-million-year-old species still carried ...

As global food systems evolve, many communities are exploring new sources of sustainable and nutritious food. Edible insects and other novel foods are gaining attention as alternative sources of ...

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A new estimate of insect diversity suggests there are at least 14 million to 20 million species buzzing and crawling around the globe. That’s double or triple other recent estimates, most of which peg ...

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Three-hundred-million years ago, Earth was very different. The continents had coalesced into Pangea, which was dominated in its equatorial regions by vast coal-swamp forests. With high atmospheric ...

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Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “We have to get used to the idea of eating insects.” This proclamation came from, of ...

But spoiler alert — this is not how insects see. Hi, I’m Niba, and today we’re going to explore how insects really see the world. We’ll make our own camera to demonstrate how our eyes work, figure out ...

UGA researchers explore which invasive insects are harmless and which are destroying our ecosystems. What’s creeping in your backyard? Their names sound like something out of a comic book: the spotted ...