When looking to other creatures for signs of intelligence, insects are rarely the most obvious candidates, but as the historian Thomas Moynihan writes, it wasn't always so.

What would you do if you felt eyes watching you, turned around, and saw a seven-foot insect-like creature? Since 2006, people fishing along the Musconetcong River in New Jersey have reported ...

This concept of civilization-ending climate change now being just around the corner isn't far out or unprecedented; check out this headline from last week's Washington Post: "The best place to ...

If all insects vanished, civilization, as well as ecosystems throughout the world, might collapse without dung beetles, dermestids, and pollinators.

The insects are small, so it takes roughly 70,000 insects to make a pound of dye. But the dye is commercially available. Here in our area, you can step back in history by just going outside!