Entomology News

The plane parked outside the airport looks more like a giant exotic insect or maybe an outsized balsa wood toy airplane.

The plane parked outside the airport looks more like a giant exotic insect or maybe an outsized balsa wood toy airplane.

When a barrage of brown marmorated stink bugs descended upon New Jersey in 2010, Hauser Hill Farms was not about to surrender its popular yellow, white and doughnut peaches.

She's hearing from 100 or more people a day who are frantically calling Little Giant Beekeepers for help in removing swarms of honeybees that are either scouting around for new homes or have taken up permanent residence.

Fires are of course a concern here in the Black Hills and even more so due to the pine beetle infestation.

Tasty? The new a 500,000 research project will work on ways to show people that insects can be delicious and not just a novelty... A new Danish research project aims to promote the widespread adoption of insects in our diets by showing that bugs and grubs are not only good for you, but are also delicious.

PEOPLE have been urged to plant bee-friendly plants and trees after a report revealed the number of the insects in the north had dropped alarmingly.

There's a lot of buzz at Washington State University over work to develop the first sperm bank for honeybees.

Shoppers on Kelowna`s Bernard Street were shocked and surprised by a swarm of honey bees which clung to a tree near a building on the corner of Richter and Bernard Avenues late Saturday afternoon.

As a little girl, Jamie Cuthbertson, now 26, had a fear of being eaten by insects - spiders especially.

There's a lot of buzz at Washington State University over work to develop the first sperm bank for honeybees.

For Father's Day, let's hear some fatherly advice on learning, love, friends, worry and patience from a few famous fathers: "That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes."

Old Catton insect wrangler Martin French who has had some of his vast collection of exotic insects used in Sky One nature programme called Micro Monsters 3D with David Attenborough.

CREEPY crawlies tend to send most people running and screaming, but Denis Hogan loves nothing more than getting up close to critters.

Dr. Frank Wright, a forensic dentist in Cincinnati, displays a cast of a suspect's teeth used in a bite mark analysis.

Two billion people around the world, primarily in south-east Asia and Africa, eat insects - locusts, grasshoppers, spiders, wasps, ants - on a regular basis .

Scientists say an explosion of tent caterpillars, which spin slightly creepy-looking shelters on tree limbs, are leaving some Arizona mountain areas looking like science-fiction movies.

GMO flu vaccine containing GMO proteins derived from insects as well as dog kidney cells have been approved .

Bees fly around a decoy hive that beekeeper Peter Cowin removed from a telephone pole filled with about 20,000 bees at Dysart's Restaurant Friday afternoon in Hermon.

The atmosphere of the room can drastically change depending on what is hanging on the wall and this insect design brings along with it a crisp, organic feel.